Estimated safety rating

mssecsvc.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers many of the "probable danger" flags described bellow. It is yet unknown if mssecsvc.exe is malware or an ok program that doesn't harm your PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

Usually, this application is found in C:\Windows\mssecsvc.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this executable is 41ff9d796235f7729ceb962101644482.

Is running as a service

This application is a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without displaying anything to you. Most Windows services are ok programs, which perform useful functions to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This executable uses the net to communicate. Today this is ok. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for new updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This program runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the entire set of features of current PC processors. This is quite normal because the makers did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File description

The description written in the exe is Microsoft® Disk Defragmenter.

File version

File version extracted from the file 6.1.7601.17514 (win7sp1_rtm.101119-1850).

Manufacturer

Author Microsoft Corporation.

Copyright

Legal copyright notice © Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some unusual features of the Operating System appear to be used, such as functions for tapping the keyboard. We recommend you to be very careful regarding this program.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall command set up in registry.