Estimated safety rating

winzip smart monitor service.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed in this document. It is yet unknown if winzip smart monitor service.exe is a virus 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\WinZip Smart Monitor\WinZip Smart Monitor Service.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 fingerprint for this program is e42913659f04ae18dbc903a271c8e963.

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 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. In this day and age this is ok. For example, most of the apps on your computer check for updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 64 bit executable file

64-bit code has been detected. This program can put to good use the full power of a current computer processor.

File description

The description present in the file is WinZip Smart Monitor Service.

File version

File version extracted from the file 2,3,0,6.

Copyright

Copyright notice Copyright © 1991-2017 Corel Corporation. All Rights Reserved..

Potentially dangerous functions

Some unusual functions of the Operating System appear to be used, such as functions for tapping the keyboard. We advise you to perform more in-depth research about this program.

Digitally signed

winzip smart monitor service.exe is digitally signed. Nowadays the large majority of legit software applications are digitally signed.

Valid digital signature

The digital signature is not valid, which means it is most likely that this 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 email

The name of the firm or individual signing this is: help@winzip.com

Certifier name

Digitally signed by: WinZip Computing LLC

Issuer name

Certificate's issuer name: GlobalSign CodeSigning CA - SHA256 - G2

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall routine, which is good. si are uninstall.