Comments on: What Is Msseces.exe & MsMpEng.exe Process? And Why They Are Running?

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MSMPENG.exe - COMPUTER OPSCHONEN ADVIES — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 08:33:30 +0000

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By: Stefano

Stefano — Sun, 19 Sep 2010 07:55:25 +0000

Appreciated your clear explanation. Thank you.

By: seth

seth — Sat, 18 Sep 2010 19:04:02 +0000

compaq presario c500 with vista ultimate 32 bit, is rebooting itself always anytime i want to get to the desktop.memory, hard disk,has been change many times, and a lot of checking made but still it is rebooting itself. it is ver disturbing! i need help! thank you!

By: glnz

glnz — Sun, 04 Jul 2010 18:19:50 +0000

Bump – would like comments on the above.

By: valter

valter — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 21:38:44 +0000

Obrigado pela explcação,parei o processo sem noção nenhuma, estou usando o anti vírus da Microsoft ok?

By: glnz

glnz — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 11:35:56 +0000

TWO QUESTIONS:

1) What if we let MsMpEng.exe run but disable Msseces.exe ? What’s the downside?

2) BTW, I added Microsoft Security Essentials just recently and have long been running (and continue to run) Avast Home Free AV and AdAware, and also do manual scans and updates with MalwareBytes, Spybot Search & Destroy and SpywareBlaster. So far I don’t see any conflicts, but could conflicts be occurring I don’t know about?

WinXPPro SP3, 2GB RAM, Dell Optiplex 755 BIOS A16.

By: derek

derek — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 17:57:07 +0000

An excellent, clear, concise, informative and (I’m betting) knowledgeable explanation. Thank you much for outstanding work.

By: Cody Brandt

Cody Brandt — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 23:52:27 +0000

I'm having an odd problem with Msseces.exe, when it runs it uses about 22% cpu and makes explorer use 30%, when I end Msseces.exe, explorer usage drops back down to 0-3%. Is there a way to keep those from using so many cycles because I'm already at an average 50%-80% between F@H using 50% on constantly and WMP using 10%-30% and is on almost as long as the computer is on.

By: Iván

Iván — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:32:04 +0000

Great explanation. Thank you

By: seriouslyjim

seriouslyjim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 07:50:36 +0000

So long as they all “play nice” in the sandbox together and you can tolerate the performance hit of so many concurrent applications running BEFORE you start actually doing anything… no big deal. Do not have 2 antivirus programs installed/running at the same time but because adware scanners are somewhat different and many (primarily the free ones) do not have a “live” component running. They rely on you to start and run the scan manually. AdAware and now MSE are different in that respect- they do have the “live” component and may, at times, conflict. Knowing that, if you do have a conflict, you know to turn off one or the others “live” component and see if your conflict goes away.
Over the years, my “favorite” mal-ware solutions change as the programs and the environment they run in change. Today's free favorites are AVG for an antivirus, MalWareBytes for an antimalware scanner, and SuperAntiSpyware for a spyware scanner. New stuff comes out often and as I hear about them, I will sometimes put them up against real life infected systems and see how they do vs the ones that I am then currently using (tangled grammar… but you get the meaning…).
I haven't been a fan of registry cleaners- the ones I've used tell me they're doing all sorts of wonderful stuff… but I see little or no performance improvement, as a general statement. Occasionally, they seem to help a little but no more than the margin of error generated by hopeful thinking.
Hope that gives you some direction or at least some perspective on your question. Take care!

By: seriouslyjim

seriouslyjim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:59:29 +0000

Svchost.exe is merely a generic that Microsoft uses for certain types of processes that various (but not all) types of programs use to accomplish their tasks. Five svchost.exe processes are not an unusual number. Don't worry about them unless one is using a huge amount of processor time, indicating either a problem with a legitimate program that uses the service or a malware program of some type that has co-opted an instance of the service for its own devious uses. At that point, it can take a little detective work to discover who the bad actor is…

By: seriouslyjim

seriouslyjim — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:50:36 +0000

By: Steve

Steve — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 05:10:46 +0000

My computer has Adaware, AVG, Regcure, and now Microsoft Security Essentials all apparently running together. What are the ramifications by having so many security type software all running at the same time?

By: Osama

Osama — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 11:50:18 +0000

thank you for the great explanation, please i want know what this process do “svchost.exe”i have 5 scchoost.exe processes running.