What is epservice.exe?

epservice.exe is part of AOL Shield and developed by AOL according to the epservice.exe version information.

epservice.exe's description is "AOL Shield"

epservice.exe is digitally signed by SentryBay Limited.

epservice.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\AOL\AOL Shield\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about epservice.exe.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on epservice.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameAOL Shield
Company nameAOL
File descriptionAOL Shield
Internal nameAOL Shield
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2016 AOL ® 2016 All Rights Reserved.
Product version5.8.0.11477
File version5.8.0.11477

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameAOL Shield
Company nameAOL
File descriptionAOL Shield
Internal nameAOL Shield
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2016 AOL ® 2016 All Ri..
Product version5.8.0.11477
File version5.8.0.11477

Digital signatures [?]

epservice.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameSentryBay Limited
Certificate issuer nameDigiCert SHA2 Assured ID Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number0bb4f993793b02ea3790950e698cedbb

VirusTotal report

None of the 57 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the epservice.exe file.

None of the 57 anti-virus programs detected the epservice.exe file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5a4ed6f0c8e95c9190192aa5966300d4f
SHA256397ef3bc5398adbdc88f563b6824f34562ba606c4f96f196d76bf7f56071b55b

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to epservice.exe:

epservice.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

epservice.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

AOL Shield has stopped working.

End Program - epservice.exe. This program is not responding.

epservice.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

epservice.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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