Hot to know whether your computer is safe with wuauclt.exe

This post helps you to recognize whether the wuauclt.exe file is a virus, trojan, spyware, adware which you can remove, or a file belonging to a Windows system or an application you can trust.

wuauclt.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 124184 bytes (66% of all occurrence)

Here are the possibilities to be a dangerous file :

• wuauclt.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows then the security rating is 73% dangerous. File sizes can be one of the followings (230518 bytes (40% of all occurrence), 230520 bytes, 196608 bytes, 17039 bytes, 60519 bytes, 58656 bytes)
• wuauclt.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows\System32 then the security rating is 88% dangerous. File sizes can be one of the followings (File size is 26967 bytes (50% of all occurrence), 19553 bytes)
• wuauclt.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings" then the security rating is 64% dangerous. File size is 33068 bytes
• wuauclt.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows then the security rating is 100% dangerous. File size is 21873 bytes
• wuauclt.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32\drivers then the security rating is 56% dangerous. File size is 81794 bytes

wuauclt.exe is not a Windows system file. The process is loaded during the Windows boot process.
See the following Registry Keys

Registry key: HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_USERS\.DEFAULT\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices).