What is housecall.bin?

housecall.bin is part of Trend Micro HouseCall and developed by Trend Micro Inc. according to the housecall.bin version information.

housecall.bin's description is "Trend Micro HouseCall"

housecall.bin is digitally signed by Trend Micro, Inc..

housecall.bin is usually located in the 'C:\WINDOWS\Temp\HouseCall\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about housecall.bin.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on housecall.bin:

PropertyValue
Product nameTrend Micro HouseCall
Company nameTrend Micro Inc.
File descriptionTrend Micro HouseCall
Internal nameHouseCall.exe
Original filenameHouseCall.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2017 Trend Micro Incorporated. All rights reserved.
Legal trademarkCopyright (C) Trend Micro Inc.
Private buildBuild 1169 - 3/30/2017
Product version1.62
File version1.62.0.1169
Special build1169

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

Product nameTrend Micro HouseCall
Company nameTrend Micro Inc.
File descriptionTrend Micro HouseCall
Internal nameHouseCall.exe
Original filenameHouseCall.exe
Legal copyrightCopyright (C) 2017 Trend Micro Inc..
Legal trademarkCopyright (C) Trend Micro Inc.
Private buildBuild 1169 - 3/30/2017
Product version1.62
File version1.62.0.1169
Special build1169

Digital signatures [?]

housecall.bin has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameTrend Micro, Inc.
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number774d49c5649436de6bf3190a67eedcdf

VirusTotal report

None of the 63 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the housecall.bin file.

None of the 63 anti-virus programs detected the housecall.bin file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5361e3523f84f0f67bd492b4c57092196
SHA2568c5f337ce39c7c5a49f3ebcccad6e1d4deeebe0d9e9368957c18cfc6b84e9aaf

What will you do with housecall.bin?

To help other users, please let us know what you will do with housecall.bin:



What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with housecall.bin. 67% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 3 users.

User vote results: There were 2 votes to remove and 1 vote to keep

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with housecall.bin. Only 3 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Malware or legitimate?

If you feel that you need more information to determine if your should keep this file or remove it, please read this guide.

Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the information provided on this web page


Free online surveys

And now some shameless self promotion ;)

A screenshot of FreeFixer's scan result.Hi, my name is Roger Karlsson. I've been running this website since 2006. I want to let you know about the FreeFixer program. FreeFixer is a freeware tool that analyzes your system and let you manually identify unwanted programs. Once you've identified some malware files, FreeFixer is pretty good at removing them. You can download FreeFixer here. It runs on Windows 2000/XP/2003/2008/2016/2019/Vista/7/8/8.1/10. Supports both 32- and 64-bit Windows.

If you have questions, feedback on FreeFixer or the freefixer.com website, need help analyzing FreeFixer's scan result or just want to say hello, please contact me. You can find my email address at the contact page.

Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

No comments posted yet.

Leave a reply