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

How to fix mmc.exe related problems?
1. Run Security Task Manager to check your mmc.exe process
2. Run Registry Booster to fix mmc.exe related errors
3. Run Spyware Doctor to remove persistent malware

Process name: Microsoft Management Console or Microsoft Yönetim Konsolu or Konzola Microsoft Management Console or Êîíñîëü óïðàâëåíèÿ (MMC) or Consola de administración de Microsoft or Consola de gestão da Microsoft or Console de gerenciamento Microsoft
Product: Betriebssystem Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Windows Operating System or Système d'exploitation Microsoft Windows or Microsoft Windows Ýþletim Sistemi or Operaèní systém Microsoft Windows or Operativsystemet Microsoft Windows or Besturingssysteem Microsoft Windows or MicrosoftR WindowsR Operating System or Microsoft Windows -käyttöjärjestelmä or Sistema operativo Microsoft Windows or Microsoft(R) Windows(R) Operating System or mmc.exe or Îïåðàöèîííàÿ ñèñòåìà Microsoft Windows or COM+ System Manager or System operacyjny Microsoft Windows or Îïåðàöèîííàÿ ñèñòåìà Microsoft(R) Windows(R) or mmc.exe" -vt ndrv or Microsoft Windows operációs rendszer or mmc.exe or Sistema operacional Microsoft Windows
Company: Microsoft Corporation (www.microsoft.com) or Êîðïîðàöèÿ Ìàéêðîñîôò
File: mmc.exe


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Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection! Check it out!


Users Opinions

427 users ask for this file. 2 users didn't rate it ("don't know"). 23 users rated it as not dangerous. 1 user rated it as not so dangerous. 5 users rated it as neutral. 2 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 4 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.
egoman nothing. somehow it got listed in my antivirus block list (either by the program itself or my own ignorance) for two weeks and i didn't see any adverse effect on the pc
daviej Never heard of anyone having a problem with mmc, pops up in task manager when defraging then goes away.
Stoob Part of Windows - non essential for most users - disable via run: services.msc.
LordFrog i dunno what it does, apparently has to do with defrag and such. my computer constantly read 100% CPU usage, and lagged constantly until i terminated it. terminating it got rid of 95% of my cpu usage and now my computer doesn't lag at all.....
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Chris mmc.exe is the process on my AMD 64 Vista machine with the most hard faults. I once saw it at over 100/min!
Ace Arson mmc.exe is teh Microsoft Management Console, harmless
As Its what starts up your defrag in XP  See also: Link
Mike Doherty I have heard that defragging newer, larger hard drives can actually damage them
Erik Bolding If you use Ctrl-Alt Del an have the taskmanager window on screen the process mmc.exe is running. No harm. I have no problems with it
Rob Williams Expect it to blow up + 100mb and swamp your system.
its a part of win2k and winxp you morons
Bob Heinbokel It's part of the windows defragger tool. Saw it in my process list when I paused my defragging, googled, it, NOT harmful at all. Unless of course it is a hidden version.
Andrew all I know is so far it's only come up on my processes one time, and it was eating up all my CPU's
Muknuk MMC is a windows system file, but the file name is used by virii. Check the location of the file to insure whether or not it is the legitimate file, or not.
kalyan this is a console to manage events,user,group permissions,services etc...
GilroyGroup I have been trying to run defrag and in task manager, there are multiple mmc.exe. I believe that it is a virus in disguise becuase many of my prgrmas have been malfunctioning and the problem is worsening.
Furian Ku Not sure about mine being that it's using 10,700 K I'm running through processes to find which i need and don't, this ones using alot of my processes, so yea..

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