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ws2help.dll

Windows Socket 2.0 Helper for Windows NT file version info

Library on Windows 2 known copies with hashes

Is it the real ws2help.dll?

file version info and known copies
Installed inC:\Windows\system32\
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\
Signed byMicrosoft Windows
ProductMicrosoft Windows Operating System, Microsoft Corporation
DescriptionWindows Socket 2.0 Helper for Windows NT

2 known copies

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\SysWOW64\ws2help.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

2a900ac21b85e6e32a502f24b804d8796a0d148b513d449ab4384323846d7da9

10.0.19041.1 (WinBuild.160101.0800) · C:\Windows\system32\ws2help.dll · signed by Microsoft Windows

b45001d6eaabd3c87eaa1038c3fc8e912258fa7896c2b65117ed7de2e83683f9

From the file’s version info and the copies recorded by xCyclopedia (MIT). A copy in another folder, signed by someone else or with another hash is not necessarily malicious, but it is worth a closer look. In Ceplin, "<sha256>".whatis() says which known copy a hash is.