The file epssvr.exe, known as GFI EndPointSecurity agent service, belongs to software GFI EndPointSecurity by GFI Software. GFI EndPoint Security is software for the management of portable device use in the network. It enables users to control the use of USB drives and smartphones, stops viruses from entering the network via portable devices, and prevents unauthorized employees from bringing sensitive data home. Portable devices such as smartphones, USB devices and iPods has increased the risk of deliberate and unintentional data leaks and other malicious activity. GFI EndPoint Security provides a solution that monitors, logs and controls users' access to portable devices and ensures strict management of what is copied to and from a computer, for example files to a USB device or images from a camera. To control access, a small agent is installed into each device, which includes a remote deployment tool that enables the monitoring of user logs, including requests to access different nodes in the network. The access is blocked if the request came from somebody who is not authorized to access such node.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. epssvr.exe. is used by GFI EndPoint Security, If you shut down epssvr.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop epssvr.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is GFI EndPoint Security, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed epssvr.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as GFI EndPoint Security, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if epssvr.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that epssvr.exe, belongs to, in this case GFI EndPoint Security