What is mmc.exe? Is mmc.exe spyware or a virus?

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Process name: Microsoft Management Console

Product: Microsoft® Windows® Operating System or Betriebssystem Microsoft® Windows®

Company: Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com)

File: mmc.exe

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Users Opinions

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225 users ask for this file. 9 users rated it as not dangerous. 1 user rated it as neutral. 2 users rated it as dangerous.

All comments about mmc.exe: Capi Microsoft Management Console - this is normal in Windows 2000 and XP, should be located in system32. It is used by several snap-ins, such as the defrag console, the user management console, etc. OMGWTFBBQ Nothing to worry about El Mariachi this is the application that shows you hardware specifications of you computer, it's not dangerous Karanskoff After defrag my Win 2000 Pro SP4 NL windows said it had to close mmc.exe because of some wrongs it did. This computer has NO Internet connection,and i installed Win 2000 Pro as a upgrade for Win 98 SE. Because it has no internet connection,i do not think mmc.exe has anything to do with a virus or spyware. KGBspy mmc.exe is the Microsoft Management Console application and is used to display various management plug-ins accessed from the Control Panel, such as the Device Manager. This program is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems. Snake Solid I dont think its required to run windows successfully, but im not about to kill it if it does no harm to my computer. Look for other stuff to kill! A hidden version at 71kb Steven with my 64bit AMD PC running windows 2000 pro load, running defrag software on my large drive (mine 250G) to defrag, I got mmc.exe error and my system was totally crashed (1st crash caused me a total Win 2000reload) and (2nd crash which I'm debugging because I made ERD but it still have not recover. One change made to system.sys helped a little but still need nvidia driver nv4_mini. Do not defrag unless you make backup of your files. If you know more about mmc.exe, share your knowledge and help other users. Security Rating:  --- don't know ---  1 (not dangerous)  2  3 (neutral)  4  5 (dangerous) What do you know about this file: Link for more details: Your Name:

More process information

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Other Processes

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mm_tray.exe setup.exe mpfagent.exe mmc.exe uphclean.exe ysidebariebho.dll ~e5d141.tmp hkserv.exe nvdesk32.dll ifrmewrk.exe drvmcdb.sys [all processes]