Is wininit.exe a virus or malware? (Windows Start-Up Application)

• File/task: wininit.exe (Windows Start-Up Application)

To find out whether or not the wininit.exe file is a malware, try the following.

• Online analysis of the wininit.exe file:

First find the wininit.exe file on your hard drive. You can use the tool to find Windows files. Once located, you can use an Online File Analyzer.

What it will do is analyze the wininit.exe file with dozens of antiviruses at the same time, delivering the result of each of these.

If you ever find out that it is a virus, do the following:

Scan the computer with an antivirus installed on your computer, also with an online antivirus (see: Online Antivirus) and with some antispyware (see: Free Antispyware). You should do this with Windows in Safe (Safe) Mode, as it is easier to remove malware this way. See article: Enter Windows in Safe Mode.

• Check the program associated with the wininit.exe file:

Another possibility is to identify which function or which application the process or file is related to. wininit.exe.

For this we have the following information about this process: 1. The process and file wininit.exe, is part of Windows Vista. It is responsible for loading basic services of this operating system: the service manager, the LSA subsystem and the…

To see the complete information about this file, go to this link: process wininit.exe

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