Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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msseces.exe
Microsoft Security Essentials by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.2.0216.0 |
| MD5: | c927339e9dfe04100e3708e287ba0517 |
| SHA1: | 79467b731e3b37114fea79c60b3b75af55a11c13 |
| SHA256: | d9f477ef17556e5e74ae116b4f53edb8a9117a237d8ef4266fbfb0b7a1fdb06a |
What is msseces.exe?
Msseces.exe is the front-end GUI of MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials). If you have installed the latest antivirus from Microsoft, then this process keeps the program’s graphical interface running. Even if you end this process, MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials) will keep running in Windows background and will not actually shutdown. The downside would be that it will not be able to alert you of any new threat. If you are running MSE, then you should not worry about this process since it is not s
About msseces.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home or small business PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a fr”
Details
| File name: | msseces.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft Security Essentials |
| Description: | Microsoft Security Essentials User Interface |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft security essentials\msseces.exe |
| File version: | 4.2.0216.0 |
| Size: | 1.22 MB (1,281,512 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.242037 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
The Microsoft Security Essentials Prerelease program allows users to run the latest & greatest versions of Security Essentials before they are publicy available.
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'MSC' → "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\msseces.exe" -hide -runkey
- 'MSSE' → "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\msseces.exe" -hide
Scheduled tasks
- The task '{71D4AACB-C18B-4045-A10C-354B97DBD55B}' runs on registration in the path '\{71D4AACB-C18B-4045-A10C-354B97DBD55B}'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002287% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002236% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000051% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,529 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,072,574/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 11.77 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 22.89 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 19.65 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 11.77 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 142.45 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 148.63 MB | |
| Working set: | 22.13 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 24.04 MB | |
| Page faults: | 93,861/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 17 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 351 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 173 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 187 | |
| GUI USER count: | 109 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 113 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\microsoft security client\msseces.exe" -hide -runkey |
| Owner: | User |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004244% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000995% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003249% | |
| CPU cycles: | 790/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001057% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001057% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 262/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.09 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
60.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
15.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
1.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 54.55% of Microsoft Security Essentials.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.94% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
15.85% |
|
| Acer |
10.19% |
|
| ASUS |
9.81% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.04% |
|
| Sony |
6.04% |
|
| Lenovo |
5.28% |
|
| Intel |
4.53% |
|
| Compaq |
3.02% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.26% |
|
| Gateway |
1.51% |
|
| MSI |
1.51% |
|
| NEC |
1.51% |
|
| Samsung |
0.75% |
|
| Sahara |
0.75% |
|
