McsAgent.exe
Summary
McAfee System Agent - core agent for McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator managed endpoints.
McsAgent.exe is the 733rd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,696 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint and it is most often launched by services.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Sophos\Management Communications System\Endpoint100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 820bb0312b3d2ebebfa8d09c5912b4fd1ce09fc7ae2ee7bbc4b0d745ba6f43d043.34%
- 6f09d7709be8d00b102bd17d5aa3c3d09cd449e2d19a54bd03d56ca26fd6117720.57%
- f1b1cb9b18310971562d54e759951c6b20c82cecc3409163e6e91fe8703010ec17.64%
- 7e278d67ac4af139046e5692fd7d630d62afb0cfe9e849dc72bb6a79d752b9ea5.51%
- 0025dbf257e2fcc0456e3789b2855c7e65b109ad5283f09884d1625ce2c858954.97%
- 834d7e14585486e82676b4dc4b807cb05ba5db6c2940294446deebe852ec4c1c4.23%
- d25d63ef8ab8d7b4daf3e2960809040f253e4ee5a678647b027f9dc1d8bce8562.95%
- daec16aa93df63fd82a6eddf04d640f39696757fdf74f74748839325f559607a0.43%
- 47162ed76e607c66ddbc30cd6a183995cda662fe63f28b7d09ea0fa27ea7b9fa0.22%
- 1c93222146f5a237c909c7fafa05b9b6341406fbc4db44164f964ba1f51b3a990.07%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- hmpalert.exe99.99%
- WerFault.exe0.01%
- regsvr32.exe<0.01%
- net1.exe<0.01%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.