Estimated safety rating

smss.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 described in this document. It is yet unknown if smss.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't cause harm the PC. Please be careful with this application.

Executable file path

Usually, this program is located in C:\Windows\System32\smss.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is fa64733bd65f52712f0545f56fdb4be6.

Is running as a service

This program does NOT operate as a Windows service. This is normally a good sign.

Is a 64 bit executable file

This is a x64 executable. It runs using the full capacity of modern CPUs.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall routine stored in registry.