Estimated safety rating

smartscreen.exe may be a dangerous program, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed in this document. It is not yet known if smartscreen.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't harm the PC. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

The default filename and directory where this program is stored is
C:\Windows\System32\smartscreen.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is 5cffcdc66c84d2e96098b0be8ae44ace.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT run as a Windows service. This is usually a good sign.

Accesses the internet

This program uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age 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 exploit the full power of nowadays' computer chips. This ordinarily happens because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This application does NOT have a removal routine set up in registry.