Estimated safety rating

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

Executable file path

Usually, this application is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\Lavasoft\Web Companion\Application\Lavasoft.WCAssistant.WinService.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 644d54e70fb1cae200b28af8c5e97a5a.

Is running as a service

This application is set up as a Windows service. This means it runs on your system in background, usually without showing anything to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which provide useful features to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs in 32-bit mode. It can not exploit the full power of modern computer chips. This is quite normal because the authors did not upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description stored in the program is SPWindowsService.

File version

File version stored as a property 1.0.0.0.

Copyright

Legal copyright Copyright © 2014.

Digitally signed

lavasoft.wcassistant.winservice.exe has a digital signature. Today most clean programs are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is broken. This indicates this software application may be malware and that somebody probably modified it after the signature was generated. We advise extreme caution!

Certifier name

Digitally signed by: 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 a good sign. si are uninstall.