Estimated safety rating

kmsss.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed in this document. It is yet unknown if kmsss.exe is malware or an ok program that doesn't cause harm the PC. We advise you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

Usually, this program is stored in C:\ProgramData\KMSAuto\bin\KMSSS.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is dde2b8ad69db0a7cbc25f18259f6705e.

Is running as a service

This application is a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing anything to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which perform useful features to other applications or to Windows in general.

Accepts incoming connections

kmsss.exe appears to act as a internet server. This means other programs can probably make connections to it. This is sometimes ok, but in some cases it can cause a security breach. We advise looking at this carefully.

Accesses the internet

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs in 32-bit mode. It does not exploit the full power of current computer processors. This is quite normal because the authors did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description extracted from the exe is KMS Server Emulator Service (XP).

File version

File version 1.1.7.0.

Manufacturer

Publisher MDL Forum, mod by Ratiborus.

Copyright

Legal copyright notice MDL Forum, mod by Ratiborus.

Potentially dangerous functions

Some insecure functions of Windows appear to be used, such as functions for recording the keyboard. We recommend you to be very careful regarding this program.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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