McsClient.exe
Summary
McAfee Security Center Client - status and notification client for McAfee endpoint protection.
McsClient.exe is the 734th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 4,687 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)
- 27e3ed69be22031df5cb5ee8121b2a5383da60fa3c625f91033715e44c7fe5a943.31%
- 5c472f708d888066b4a0aa6f7a7326584b97da7ca3364543b26be75328fd316d20.61%
- 0ffe9414c39be5315e3845c421fb6240c59636d492812415a1657ee957a889f717.66%
- b81a4f36e5cd8e8f7159e091a84d143e17b319206df639a481dd56d72b38b6775.48%
- a4450261e2eaaba1e19a1dfd83087c853be20c268ab3999ecdde809c4858d4f74.98%
- 54d251713d6362ff7ff389fef9c882090b18a6c8112b069f948c2d11ecab08884.24%
- 310c5ed448b6579c5378f606200b01a581ab6218199c5c87a25b6bbc54a462052.94%
- 8958b61f9d8340c784e2c547e3721a20eac14eb970d28339b23a9913f783f8c90.43%
- a3f4b3e4ae8eecb532f41454b0a19d147ed87810c3a9b724bca4c29f810fdcf40.22%
- 6848a9268cb7def71416db7bf5cced9178518bb358017b1d87f67fbec0cf22eb0.07%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe100%
Top Parents
- services.exe100%
Top Children
- regsvr32.exe44.44%
- conhost.exe33.33%
- net1.exe22.22%
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.