What is the "charmap.exe" ?

Our database contains 46 different files for filename charmap.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name charmap.exe. This files most often belongs to product Microsoft® Windows® Operating System. and were most often developed by company Microsoft Corporation. This files most often have description Character Map. Agregate rating is 5(5) stars - based on 3 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process charmap.exe.

charmap.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "charmap.exe"

Product:
Microsoft® Windows® Operating System
Company:
Microsoft Corporation
Description:
Character Map
Version:
5.2.3668.0
MD5:
b4c2ce57f51b9f62956d256eb68973ed
SHA1:
c6e1ff5d4720d344da996c128f987ce64354e584
SHA256:
d584f2cdb5b31af93bb7e7e188a7575eafe18e0a786f36bd1236cac79d9bfaa4
Size:
165888
Directory:
C:\Windows\System32
Operating System:
Windows 7
Occurence:
Low oc0

Is the Process "charmap.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
33% of reviewed files are marked as System file.
Latest new variant of the file with name "charmap.exe" was discovered 4126 days ago. Our database contains 13 variants of the file "charmap.exe" with final rating Safe and zero variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.
Filename "charmap.exe" is used by Microsoft Windows System files. Many threats uses filenames of System Processes to camouflage itself. You should consider suspected any file which uses system filename and is not stored in system directory or has invalid file version information. Correct system file contains full file version information from Microsoft.

User Reviews of the "charmap.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "charmap.exe"

  • SAFErating from user Czechball for file C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe (Variant: 36936934)

    Just an Windows Character Map, totally clean.

  • SAFErating from user vix for file C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe (Variant: 742770)

    A simple windows component that displays character maps from unicode and non-unicode fonts.

  • SAFErating from user SadasPoeta for file C:\Windows\System32\charmap.exe