What is SgrmBroker.exe? Is SgrmBroker.exe safe?

If you use Task Manager on Windows 10 (1709 Fall Creators Update or later), then you can see SgrmBroker.exe running in the background. But is SgrmBroker.exe a valid file or is it a virus after all?

Along TipsMake.com find answers through the following article!

What is SgrmBroker.exe?

System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker (SgrmBroker) is a Windows service. It is part of Windows Defender System Guard. SgrmBroker can easily be confused with RuntimeBroker, which specializes in handling universal applications. However, they are different processes and both are safe.

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System Guard Runtime Monitor Broker is responsible for monitoring and validating the integrity of the Windows platform. This service oversees 3 main areas:

1. Protect and maintain the integrity of the system when it boots up.
2. Protect and maintain the integrity of the system after it runs.
3. Verify that the integrity of the system has actually been maintained through local and remote authentication.

Location in registry and file system of SgrmBroker.exe

Locations in the registry and file systems involved in this process are:

 HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESYSTEMCurrentControlSetServicesSgrmBroker %SystemRoot%system32SgrmBroker.exe 

Safe SgrmBroker.exe!

As the article discussed above, SgrmBroker.exe is a secure security service created by Microsoft that helps keep you and your system safe. Therefore, you should not try to stop or remove this service in any way. On a 'healthy' system, this process will run with low RAM usage most of the time.

If there are any problems, you can verify that the file is signed by Microsoft and run from the C: windowssystem32 directory . This step helps you to make sure this is not a fake file, running from another location.