How to remove an srescan error

The file srescan.sys is a Windows driver. A driver is a small software program that allows your computer to communicate with hardware or connected devices. This means that a driver has direct access to the internals of the OS, hardware etc.
The free file information forum can help you determine if srescan.sys belonging to the Windows system or an application you can trust.

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Srescan.sys file information

The process known as srescan or Check Point Anti-Spyware driver belongs to software srescanner or ZoneAlarm Security Suite or ZoneAlarm Pro or Check Point Anti-Spyware by Zone Labs (www.zonelabs.com) or Check Point Software Technologies LTD.

Description: srescan.sys is located in a subfolder of C:\Windows\System32. Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 29,680 bytes (26% of all occurrences), 50,416 bytes and 5 more variants.
The driver can be started or stopped from Services in the Control Panel or by other programs. The program is not visible. File srescan.sys is a Verisign signed file. Srescan.sys is certified by a trustworthy company. There is no detailed description of this service. File srescan.sys is not a Windows core file. srescan.sys seems to be a compressed file. Therefore the technical security rating is 15% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
You could uninstall ZoneAlarm or ZoneAlarm Security Suite from your computer using the Control Panel applet "Add/Remove programs".

Recommended: Identify srescan.sys related errors

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as srescan.sys, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the srescan.sys 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

I got this in a Blue Screen of Death, also said - Page_Fault_In_Nonpaged_Area
the Wolf

Caused my cpu to run at 50%, Icesword found this as a distrustful drivers under sys ck. Tried many programs for weeks trying to find the problem. Deleted it, problem gone.
Edward J. Stead

It keeps Netgear's SC-101 NAS from working. Turning it off from within DeviceManager is neccessary for the NAS to function.
Jim Johnston

Causes system crashes - BSOD
Steve

ZoneAlarm's srescan must be disabled for Netgear SC-101 to load and work.
Jim Johnston

May cause Stop error (blue screen) with Windows 2003 Service Pack 2 in older Zone Alarm versions.
Maxim Vyalkov

It interfers with Netgear SC101 NAS. Disabling it allows the NAS to work.
Jim Johnston

is a zonealarm file

Summary: Average user rating of srescan.sys: based on 7 votes with 8 reviews.

4 users think srescan.sys is essential for Windows or an installed application. 1 user think it's probably harmless. 1 user think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 1 user suspect danger. 5 users doesn't grade srescan.sys ("not sure about it").

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