Is realplay.exe safe or is this task spyware?



Purpose of realplay.exe:









File purpose and description:

This program is known as "real player". Almost everyone has this on their computer, as it plays vidoes and streaming internet video. This is the player that opens by default when you choose video type *.rm. Real player also plays other video types and music. (See the details below for the actual location of this file.)

Actual file or task name:
realplay.exe

File type:
This is a executable program.

File or folder location:
This will be located in your program files folder, and in the "real" folder within that.


General information:
Be aware that many tasks will be similiar names to existing tasks or processes. You can always view the running tasks on your computer by pressing ctrl-alt-del to view the windows "task manager", and then view the "processes" tab. This will show you all tasks running or currently active on your PC. Although this shows you all running tasks, it does not show dll file thats are loaded, as they get loaded as part of other processes. Many spyware writers attempt to hide their files on your computer, for example, realplay.exe may be intentionally misspelled to look like a similiar task, or spyware may be named very similiar to a Windows system task. The reason they do this is so you cannot easily recognize the name in your tasklist as I have mentioned above. Make sure always check the location of the file if you are concerned. You can always find the location of realplay.exe on your computer by using your Windows search options, but I will also try to list the file location of every file described on this website, so you can verify the correct location. You can view the entire tasklist directory with the link below.

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