How to remove an ose error

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Ose.exe file information

The process known as Office Source Engine

belongs to software Microsoft Office Professional or Office Source Engine or Microsoft Office Standard (version 2010) or Microsoft Office Enterprise (version 2007) or Microsoft Office Shared MUI (version 2007) or Microsoft Office Small or Microsoft Office FrontPage (version 2003) or Microsoft Office Word Viewer or Microsoft Office Excel Viewer

by Microsoft (www.microsoft.com).

Description: ose.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files\Common Files" or sometimes in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 89,136 bytes (70% of all occurrences), 145,184 bytes and 8 more variants.
The program is not visible. The file is not a Windows system file. File ose.exe is certified by a trustworthy company. Program can be uninstalled in the Control Panel. Therefore the technical security rating is 19% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
If you run into problems with ose.exe, you can remove the entire program Microsoft Office Professional or Microsoft Office Standard using Windows Control Panel.

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Important: Some malware camouflages itself as ose.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the ose.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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User Comments

this belongs in your prefetch folder, and it is a microsoft office search engine
Motherearth

this file is sketchy as all get out.. comes and goes at will. delete it.

Service installed as part of the Office 2003 installation from CD
Not Interested

Unfortunately this is probably both necessary and dangerous. Used to install and repair Office 2003, but may allow Microsoft to spy on you, install DRM, or disable your system if they feel you are unlicensed. If it is not installed, you cannot apply a new service pack. I recommend renaming it to norunose.exe until you want to install a new service pack, then renaming it back temporarily.

This program is part of the Microsoft Ofice and should not be terminated
Rodrigo Lobo Schmidt

remote access

Office updates do not work if OSE.EXE is terminated or removed
Ed Headset (further information)

I do not have MS Office but I do have both word and excel viewers. their .exe's are located in a sub-dir MSOCache and there is a copy of the .exe in each Directory
Jon (further information)

Nothing to do with service packs -- It is about Office UPDATES: If you disable the Ose.exe file, Microsoft Office updates do not install when you use Microsoft Windows Server Update Services or the Microsoft Update Web site to deploy software updates and hotfixes to computers in the organization
Herb Martin (further information)

It is a necessary evil and a piece of shit because removing it forces all vista updates to not install afterwards.

This is part of the Microsoft Office suite. Note: spelling of exe and location drive://Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\Source Engine\OSE.EXE.
Mike-XP

this .exe starts connection to config.office.microsoft.com.nsatc.net - looks like "original" spyware
Precox

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zaynebetti (further information)

This service lay dormant in office 2007 until I enabled the "Download a file periodically to help determine system problems" option in office Trust Center, Privacy Options. I suppose if you disable that option it that ose.exe service will not be started.
Peter

ose.exe is needed to download microsoft office updates. If you disable the service or delete the file, you will get a Code 80070643 error.
VBNetDude (further information)

Typical Microsoft bloatware not needed unless you want microsoft constantly connecting to your pc and updating things, if you want that then keep it, I disabled it in autoruns and office still works fine.
Bob

Required for MS office installation
Ramesh

Office updater

Summary: Average user rating of ose.exe: based on 24 votes with 18 reviews.

9 users think ose.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 4 users think it's probably harmless. 7 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users suspect danger. 2 users think ose.exe is dangerous and recommend removing it. 3 users doesn't grade ose.exe ("not sure about it").

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