Any body else ?

Can confirm I saw... and in fact, am still seeing... unsecapp.exe running in task manager.   I believe I first noticed it showing up as a "recent" addition in WinPatrol.

But I don't see wmiapsrv.exe --- I do see WmiPrvSE.exe running.

You are right. It is wmiprvse.exe. I had another site open at the time and mixed the two of them. My bad. Thank you.

Now the question still remains. What and why are they doing  that they were not needed before. Which program, update, invoked them ?

I am not seeing any of the above mentioned processes - not in WinPatrol,  not in task manager, in both XP or Win 7.

I would suspect they come from programs you use that I do not currently have. Avast? EMET? Something else?

[On my Win7]  By default, I am seeing one instance of  unsecapp.exe running in task manager.  

However, when I check the box to "Show processes from all users", I see two instances of  unsecapp.exe  (one running for for "me", one for System) well as two instances of  WmiPrvSE.exe (one for System, one for Network).

I have no idea when they first showed up.   I know I took notice of them only recently... but that doesn't prove anything for me.

Have unsecapp.exe only in Task Manager

Gives a description of:

" Sink to receive asynchronous callbacks for WMI client application"

Just checked my XP system... with processes from all users, there's either 1 or 2 instances of each running

I started noticing wmiprvse.exe with FF 29 everytime I opened FF 29, but now, since unsecapp.exe showed up, wmiprvse.exe is there all the time.

Joe could be right. Others have speculated that unsecapp.exe is showing because of avast!, or that wmiprvse.exe needs unsecapp.exe in case there is the need for help.

I don't use Winpatrol or AVAST (never had either one) but I see 2 instances of WmiPrvSE.exe in Device Manager (Win 7 Pro, 32-bit). It's Properties tab list the Product Name as: Microsoft Windows Operating System.

I have an unsecapp.exe file on my HDD in a sub-folder of C:\windows\winsxs\..., but it's not listed as running according to Device Manager.

I'm using MS Security Essentials.

EDIT: And I only have IE11 installed, not FF.

I don't use Winpatrol or AVAST (never had either one) ... I have an unsecapp.exe file on my HDD in a sub-folder of C:\windows\winsxs\..., but it's not listed as running according to Device Manager.

Thank you Ron. So far unsecapp.exe is active in all instances where avast! is running and no other AV.

Hernan:   You wrote:  "There are a few questions around the web about it..."

Can you give us some links?

Hernan,

At the moment, I'm seeing on my XP system that WinPatrol first detected unsecapp on 5/26.  On that basis, and trying to connect it with avast [which you believe is a common denominator], I have to wonder whether this program has been activated as a result of the recent avast "emergency" updates???

Hernan:   You wrote:  "There are a few questions around the web about it..." Can you give us some links?

What I meant was one can find what unsecapp.exe is ( Google it ), but not why it was running and no one gives a definitive answer. eg.

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2154724/unsecapp-exe-process.html

Since most hits are in English there was a topic opened in an Spanish forum where I was asked to participate since it was belived it started to show because avast!.

http://www.forospyware.com/t486677.html

Now. I added wmiprvse.exe to the question since it has never run in my system ( XP ) by itself, but only when FF 29 was opened. It seems that it is a regular active application en Win 7 and Win 8 so users did not find it out of place or related to unsecapp.exe.

Hernan, At the moment, I'm seeing on my XP system that WinPatrol first detected unsecapp on 5/26.  On that basis, and trying to connect it with avast [which you believe is a common denominator], I have to wonder whether this program has been activated as a result of the recent avast "emergency" updates???

I just looked on another XP system, on which I didn't update avast until late yesterday... and WinPatrol is showing unsecapp as first being "found" today.

It really seems like it's something used by the recent avast emergency update.   (I have one more XP system I could try as well... eventually.)

Hey guys...re-read my previous post.

I've never had AVAST or WinPatrol on this system and it's a clean Win 7 Pro SP1 install which I just did in Apr'14, and I have both of those files.

So unless the Digital River Win 7 .iso I used to do the clean install had it, where would I have gotten unsecapp, if this system never had WinPatrol or AVAST?  

I have unsecapp V6.1.7600.16385, dated 7-13-09, signed by Microsoft, so it's been around for a long time, but it's not running on my system according to Task Manager.

It's possible AVAST or WinPatrol made some changes that now require unsecapp to run, but it seems doubtful -to me- they installed it.

More likely it's just something you never knew existed on your HDD because it didn't run until now.

BTW: I just checked my old HDD which still has the original Dell OEM Win XP Pro install on it (but never AVAST or WinPatrol), and it also has unsecapp.exe, dated 8-14-2004. Can't say if it was ever running under XP, but it's been there since the beginning of that installation.

I think you're worrying about nada.