Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

This program is usually stored in C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Google Media Server\GoogleMediaServer.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this file is 8da602be47c9ddcc725f57a6f89af483.

Is running as a service

This application is set up as a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are legit programs, which provide useful features to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is ok. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the full power of nowadays' PC chips. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description extracted from the program is Google Media Server service.

File version

File version extracted from the file 1, 0, 0, 12552.

Manufacturer

Company name Google Inc..

Copyright

Legal copyright notice (c) Google Inc. All rights reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some dangerous functions of the Operating System have been used, such as functions for recording the keyboard. We recommend you to be very careful regarding this program.

Digitally signed

A digital certificate is missing from this program. The maker did not sign it. This is usually bad.

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall routine set up in registry.