Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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msninst.exe
Microsoft CoReXT by Microsoft
| Version: | 9.0.1320.0 |
| MD5: | e4fbae3e42a8d8e0387a99911fb5d6c9 |
| SHA1: | 04b2bd1468c452523c63fee4ff6091937a65e53f |
| SHA256: | 77e17a82a1cb959472a71a71c0b3db36352107dbe4539e28323d7371cb70c2d2 |
What is msninst.exe?
Microsoft account (previously Windows Live ID) is a single sign-on web service developed and provided by Microsoft that allows users to log in to many websites using one account. Microsoft account allows users to sign in to websites that support this service using a single set of credentials. Users' credentials are not checked by Microsoft account-enabled websites, but by a Microsoft account authentication server.
About msninst.exe (from Microsoft)
“Windows Live ID (formerly known as Microsoft Passport) is a service that allows you to use a single e-mail address and password, referred to as credentials, to sign into most Microsoft sites and servi”
Details
| File name: | msninst.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corp. |
| Product name: | Microsoft® CoReXT |
| Description: | Msn Installer Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\msn\msninstaller\msninst.exe |
| File version: | 9.0.1320.0 |
| Size: | 129.5 KB (132,608 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.715423 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02325003% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00804809% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01520194% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 270 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 9 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 14.71 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 584 KB | |
| Private (minimum): | 584 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 14.71 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 95.01 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 97.26 MB | |
| Working set: | 588 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 41.02 MB | |
| Page faults: | 24,893/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 14.28 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 7/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 11.14 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 6/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 3.75 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 66/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 10 | |
| Handles: | 461 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 100 | |
| GUI USER count: | 46 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
60.00% |
|
| Windows XP Professional |
40.00% |
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