What is psexesvc.exe?

[NSA_CIA]

My computer just started freezing/crashing and its not possible to be connected for too long.The only way to recover from these freezes is through a hard reboot.i ran antivirus that detects a suspicious file: C: \ Windows \ PSEXESVC.EXE. i am running windows xp on my system.

[Calvin K]

Have you tried to temporarily disable your Firewall protection to see if you can connect?File psexesvc.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 53,248 bytes (66% of all occurrence), 95,808 bytes.psexesvc.exe is a PsExec Service Host belonging to Sysinternals PsExec from Sysinternals.However it can be used for malicious purposes like many programs.

[Lillebror]

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[jesse]

The file 'PSEXESVC.EXE' has been determined to be 'MALWARE'. this file is a Win32 service. The virus wrote itself to PSEXESVC.exe that's all.