Estimated safety rating

lavasoft.searchprotect.winservice.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers many of the "probable danger" criteria described bellow. It is yet unknown if lavasoft.searchprotect.winservice.exe is malware or not that doesn't harm your computer. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

The default filename and directory where this application is stored is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.SearchProtect.WinService.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this file is a507d0060eeb23b89e76e08c240b5e99.

Is running as a service

This program is set up as a Windows service. This means it runs on your system in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which perform useful functions to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs as a 32-bit program. It does not exploit the full set of features of nowadays' PC chips. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File description

The description extracted from the program is SPWindowsService.

File version

File version stored as a property 1.0.0.0.

Copyright

Legal copyright notice Copyright © 2014.

Digitally signed

lavasoft.searchprotect.winservice.exe has a digital signature. Today the large majority of clean programs are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is invalid. This indicates this app may be malware and that somebody most likely changed some of its code after the signature was applied. We advise extreme caution!

Certifier name

Digital certificate name: Lavasoft Limited

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: Symantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall string in registry, which is good. si are uninstall.