What is keygen.exe?

[chaosblade]

After installing windows xp on my system, i have noticed that keygen.exe process always run as background process. I have tried to to stop that from task manager but it won't...

[Calvin K]

keygen.exe is a process registered as a backdoor vulnerability which may be installed for malicious purposes by an attacker allowing access to your computer from remote locations. If keygen.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings" then the security rating is 45% dangerous.

[Lillebror]

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[Wynn]

Keygen & viruses work the same way so it hard for your AV to know if its a virus or not.The file "keygen.exe" is known to be created under the following filenames: %AppData%\keygen.exe, %AppData%\microsoft\windows\lsass.exe.