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What is mssearch.exe? MS Index Service?

Vendor:      Microsoft
Product:     PKM
Vendor Website:      http://www.microsoft.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
Process is goodPC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is good.
Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: mssearch.exe is responsible for the cataloging of indexes for Exchange server and SQL server.

mssearch.exe is an essential part of Windows and required for Windows to work properly. It should never be disabled.


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mssearch.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
mssearch.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x5c7157451da94116443b96c4d59d059c 1/21/2015 2:54:00 PM Unknown 9.107.8320.4 MS Index Service 68 KB
2 Status 0x0d982fc2f69ceaa5773123a8719b57fd 1/20/2012 5:06:00 PM Unknown 9.107.8320.1 MS Index Service 68 KB
3 Status 0x3a60eeab25214933b75c64bf94194028 1/14/2012 6:28:00 AM Unknown 9.107.8320.9 MS Index Service 68 KB
4 Status 0x0a888d52ae878649a020cc526c5665d7 8/16/2011 12:38:00 AM Unknown 9.107.8320.0 MS Index Service 68 KB
5 Status 0xd02da157e549697154010280ddad45fd 12/4/2010 9:21:00 PM Unknown 9.107.5512.0 MS Index Service 72 KB
6 Status 0xd965449ab8e033be6b7a6eedfd5e3064 8/26/2009 6:19:00 PM Unknown 9.107.6709.1 MS Index Service 68 KB
7 Status 0xa9688d883419e9f03ab1732e27a3ffde 2/10/2009 11:51:00 AM Unknown Unknown MS Index Service 64 KB
8 Status 0x2b7615b62f2c0eccc443163b65cdbfcb 10/12/2008 7:37:00 PM Unknown 9.107.2919.1 MS Index Service 72 KB
9 Status 0x1084403fa92d6bbc0a464df75c2a78f5 7/2/2008 2:31:00 AM Unknown 9.107.6815.3 MS Index Service 68 KB
10 Status 0x2a02adbb53b67e3e3d7df287c01aec95 5/13/2008 4:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown MS Index Service 64 KB
11 Status 0x6b521311c1d7b814eb228d1fc8c507b0 4/25/2008 12:29:00 PM Unknown Unknown MS Index Service 72 KB


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