Estimated safety rating

msus.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers many of the "possible danger" flags detailed bellow. It is yet unknown if msus.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't harm the computer. We recommend you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

This application is normally found on disk in C:\Windows\System32\msus.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 9c121258b54cbe7ef831260be82e900d.

Is running as a service

This program is set up as a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing anything to you. Most Windows services are ok programs, which perform useful features to other programs or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your PC check for updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This exe runs as a 32-bit program. It does not use the full power of modern PC CPUs. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Potentially dangerous functions

Some unusual features of the Operating System have been used, such as functions for recording the keyboard. We advise you to read more about this program.

Digitally signed

A digital certificate is missing from this program. The authors did not sign it. This is usually bad.

Can be uninstalled

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