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Seneca College SEC 625 SEC lab3 edited-Intro to Computer System-questions with verified answers

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Intro to Computer System Security Lab3 PART 1 Service Information I have selected smss.exe and I did right-click on it in the last item we have online research. I clicked on it and find some inf ... ormation such as below.  What is smss.exe and is it virus or not? It is a subsystem session and a software component of Microsoft. It is responsible for many activities such as lunching the winlogon and Csrss. If lunched and worked well to the end then the system get shuts down; if it happened unexpectedly for some reason, then smss.exe causes to hang the system or system stop. So, it is a file that manages the start up of the session in windows. The .exe at the end of it shows that it is an executable file so it is legitimate. It is not recommended to remove from your system and it is safe. If you remove this from your computer, then you may get some problem with your system such as windows failed to boot. It is not a virus; however, sometimes some cyber attacks may come with the same name of executable to hide in the system name, then if you got some problem that your computer works unusual, you have to check your computer security. The location of the legitimate one should be in c:\windows\System32\smss.exe directory. If you find this file somewhere else, it may have infected with some cyber threat. This fake file may come with many things such as free or cracked software, any important email attachment or other thing. So you have to remove it correctly [Show More]

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