What is herss.exe?

herss.exe is usually located in the 'c:\' folder.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

herss.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

herss.exe is not signed.

Filename variants

herss.exe may also use other filenames. The most common variants are listed below:

Folder name variants

herss.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\. The most common variants are listed below:

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5097c82833623425e221820b443f22a08
SHA2566073e422a5142277d25e731f3797772a04e1d39e5e7548028ccb7b6ebb325aac

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to herss.exe:

herss.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

herss.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

herss.exe has stopped working.

End Program - herss.exe. This program is not responding.

herss.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

herss.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

What will you do with herss.exe?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with herss.exe. 88% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 318 users.

User vote results: There were 281 votes to remove and 37 votes to keep

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Malware or legitimate?

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Valeriu Atanasiu writes

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Found:
herss.exe, wsrf and buna
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1645522239-1801674531-839522115-1003\Software\Microsoft\Search Assistant\ACMru\5603
(additionally, under *.doc value of thestring, the coment was *.avi or*.flv...)
herss.exe
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-1645522239-1801674531-839522115-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

I could find out it exists when running msconfig-startup and was unfamliar to me, so I removed them (herss.exe, wsrf and buna) from registry and now I will restart after removing the check of herss from the System Configuration utility.

# 24 Mar 2010, 2:38

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