Estimated safety rating

cortana.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers many of the "possible danger" flags described in this document. It is not yet known if cortana.exe is a virus or not that doesn't cause harm your PC. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

This application is usually stored on disk in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_2.2008.26724.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Cortana.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 040dc99634f10418bafee2f1f1d5c189.

Is running as a service

This application does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the programs on your PC check for updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a 64-bit executable. It uses the full capacity of modern computer processors.

File description

The description present in the file is Cortana.

File version

File version extracted from the file 2.2008.26724.0.

Manufacturer

Producer Microsoft Corporation.

Copyright

Legal copyright ©Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

Digitally signed

The digital signature is missing from this program. The publisher did not sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall command stored in registry.