Estimated safety rating

cortana.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" flags detailed bellow. It is not yet known if cortana.exe is a virus or an ok program which doesn't harm the PC. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This program is normally found in C:\Program Files\WindowsApps\Microsoft.549981C3F5F10_3.2105.19601.0_x64__8wekyb3d8bbwe\Cortana.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is f5374814df65ddfa4f8c173df495e1fd.

Is running as a service

This application is NOT registered as a Windows service. This is good.

Accesses the internet

This executable uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 64 bit executable file

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

File description

The description written in the program is Cortana.

File version

File version extracted from the file 3.2105.19601.0.

Manufacturer

Company name Microsoft Corporation.

Copyright

Legal copyright notice ©Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall command set up in registry.