Versions

4.5.0216.0	12.95%
4.4.0304.0	7.77%
4.4.0304.0	1.30%
4.3.0219.0	11.66%
4.3.0219.0	7.25%
4.3.0216.0	3.89%
4.3.0216.0	2.85%
4.3.0215.0	5.96%
4.3.0215.0	2.33%
4.2.0223.0	36.01%
2.0.0657.0	1.30%
2.0.0657.0	4.40%
1.0.1611.0	2.33%

There are 13 versions of msseces.exe in the wild, the latest version being 4.5.0216.0. msseces.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows. The average file size is about 1.12 MB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to Microsoft Corporation by Microsoft Corporation. The programs Microsoft Security Essentials, System Center Endpoint Protection and MS Security Essentials have been observed as installing specific variations of msseces.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0024% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 7.42 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 14.29 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 91 Bytes per minute for reads and 23.22 KB per minute for writes.

Msseces.exe is the front-end GUI of MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials). If you have installed the latest antivirus from Microsoft, then this process keeps the program’s graphical interface running. Even if you end this process, MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials) will keep running in Windows background and will not actually shutdown. The downside would be that it will not be able to alert you of any new threat. If you are running MSE, then you should not worry about this process since it is not s