Estimated safety rating

microsoftedgeupdate.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers many of the "probable danger" flags described in this document. It is yet unknown if microsoftedgeupdate.exe is a virus or not that doesn't harm the PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

The default name and path where the program is stored is
C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft\EdgeUpdate\MicrosoftEdgeUpdate.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is 7be44c1a85828b95a4224f77a5dbfa5e.

Is running as a service

This application is registered as a Windows service. This means it operates on your system in background, usually without displaying anything to you. Most Windows services are ok programs, which provide useful features to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. Today this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This application runs as a 32-bit program. It does not use the full power of nowadays' PC CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description stored in the program is Microsoft Edge Update.

File version

File version 1.3.153.51.

Manufacturer

Publisher Microsoft Corporation.

Copyright

Legal copyright Copyright Microsoft Corporation.

Digitally signed

microsoftedgeupdate.exe is digitally signed. Today most clean software applications are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is broken. This means it is most likely that the program may be malware and that someone probably modified it after the signature was generated. Please be very careful regarding this!

Certifier name

Digitally signed by: Microsoft Corporation

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: Microsoft Code Signing PCA 2011

Can be uninstalled

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