Estimated safety rating

sparkservice.exe may be a dangerous application, according to an automatic analysis of the program's operation. This program triggers many of the "probable danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is yet unknown if sparkservice.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't harm the PC. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

Normally, this program is located in C:\Program Files (x86)\baidu\Spark\sparkservice.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 352831676ca6e60c1f96e9f66adfa486.

Is running as a service

This program is a Windows service. This means it operates on your PC in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which perform useful features to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This program uses the net to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the programs on your PC check for updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This program runs in 32-bit mode. It does not use the full set of features of modern computer processors. This is quite normal because the makers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description written in the file is spark.

File version

File version 33.10.1000.132.

Manufacturer

Producer Baidu Inc..

Copyright

Legal copyright notice Copyright (C) 2013 Baidu Inc. All Rights Reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some dangerous functions of the Operating System have been used, such as functions for intercepting the keyboard. We recommend you to be very careful regarding this program.

Digitally signed

sparkservice.exe has a digital signature. Nowadays the large majority of virus-free software applications are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is invalid. This means it is most likely that the software application may be malware and that somebody most likely changed some of its code after the signature was applied. Please be very careful regarding this!

Certifier name

Digital certificate name: Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing)Co., Ltd

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall string in registry, which is good. si are uninstall.