The oscheck.exe process is also known as the Norton 360 Vista Migration Tool. It is owned by Symantec and it belongs to the software Symantec Shared Component. It is a program that operates during boot which checks essential Windows operating system files for any presence of viral behavior or code. It is not essential to run Norton Antivirus and other related software (Internet Security, Norton System-Works), however, it does help prevent virus attacks and root-kit that would load at start up. The user’s computer system is particularly vulnerable upon start up as it is before the operating system is fully loaded and all the normal safeguards are in place. By this time, it is common for malicious code to attempt to load itself during start up. The process has a visible window. It is Verisign signed file and it is not a Windows system file. It has the technical security rating of 1% dangerous making it safe and is unlikely to pose any potential risk to the user’s computer system.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. oscheck.exe. is used by Norton 360 Vista Migration Tool, If you shut down oscheck.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop oscheck.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Norton 360 Vista Migration Tool, 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 oscheck.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Norton 360 Vista Migration Tool, 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 oscheck.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 oscheck.exe, belongs to, in this case Norton 360 Vista Migration Tool