What is appprotectex.sys?

appprotectex.sys is part of Baidu Antivirus and developed by Baidu, Inc. according to the appprotectex.sys version information.

appprotectex.sys's description is "Baidu Antivirus Minifilter Driver"

appprotectex.sys is digitally signed by Baidu Online Network Technology (Beijing)Co., Ltd.

appprotectex.sys is usually located in the 'c:\windows\system32\drivers\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about appprotectex.sys.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on appprotectex.sys:

PropertyValue
Product nameBaidu Antivirus
Company nameBaidu, Inc.
File descriptionBaidu Antivirus Minifilter Driver
Internal nameBaidu Antivirus
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Baidu, Inc. All rights reserved.
Product version4,7,0,86225
File version4,7,0,86225

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameBaidu Antivirus
Company nameBaidu, Inc.
File descriptionBaidu Antivirus Minifilter Driver
Internal nameBaidu Antivirus
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2013 Baidu, Inc. All r..
Product version4,7,0,86225
File version4,7,0,86225

Digital signatures [?]

appprotectex.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameBaidu Online Network Technology (Beijing)Co., Ltd
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number3bdb1994b98bbb19ab55a42337fa4f5c

VirusTotal report

None of the 55 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the appprotectex.sys file.

None of the 55 anti-virus programs detected the appprotectex.sys file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5970bbfe5145a9c838953c59c7139a0e3
SHA2563dd888b6b69a6b3935045a7149dd1edd0c41548e5035d63dd79c8e636da9077f

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