Process name: MS DTC console program
Product: Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator
Company: Microsoft Corporation
File: msdtc.exe
Security Rating: 1
"msdtc.exe" belongs to Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator. The Microsoft Distributed Transaction Coordinator is a transaction manager which permits client applications to include several different sources of data in one transaction and which then coordinates committing the distributed transaction across all the servers that are enlisted in the transaction. MSDTC runs on all Windows platforms and is installed by applications which need to use it, such as the Microsoft"s Personal Web Server, or Microsoft SQL Server.
Recommendation : If you have it running, it is most probably needed by a Microsoft Application, so leave it untouched unless it is definitely causing you problem.
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Get more detailed information about msdtc.exe and all other running background processes with Security Task Manager.
Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection!
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