Estimated safety rating

mysqld.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers too many of the "probable danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is not yet known if mysqld.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't cause harm your PC. Please be careful with it.

Executable file path

The default name and path where the application is stored is
c:\wamp\bin\mysql\mysql5.6.12\bin\mysqld.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 8b9b777a82745dddbd80d7492b1aeac1.

Is running as a service

This application is a Windows service. This means it runs on your PC in background, usually without displaying any user interface to you. Most Windows services are legit programs, which provide useful features to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.

Accepts incoming connections

mysqld.exe appears to act as a network server. This means other programs can probably connect to it. This is sometimes ok, but in some cases it can cause a security breach. We advise looking at this carefully.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the programs on your computer check for new updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This executable runs in 32-bit mode. It can not use the full set of features of modern PC chips. This is quite normal because the publishers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File version

File version extracted from the file 5.6.12.0.

Potentially dangerous functions

Some insecure features of Windows appear to be used, such as functions for intercepting the keyboard. We recommend you to read more about this program.

Digitally signed

The digital signature is missing from this program. The publisher did not bother to sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

It has an uninstall routine, which is good. si are uninstall.