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Tip from the PitCrew

Every process running on your computer takes up CPU cycles and valuable memory. For optimal PC performance and resource utilization, you should be aware of every process on your computer. PC Pitstop designed this process library to help you know which processes are worthwhile and others that slow system performance.

Furthermore, perhaps the quickest and most straight forward method to detect malware is through a running process analysis.

3cshtdwn.exe (3cshtdwn.exe)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.04%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB

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PC Pitstop Analysis

3cshtdwn.exe - U.S. Robotics modem shutdown helper.

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Recommendation

3cshtdwn.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides a easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.

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Identification

In addition to the file name, 3cshtdwn.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:	U.S. Robotics
Product contains:	U.S. Robotics Modem Driver

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.

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MD5 Hashes

MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called 3cshtdwn.exe, we have detected 14 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

MD5 Report Summary
Program Name	MD5 Count
3cshtdwn.exe	14

#	MD5	Size
1	0xc0768638a0510add6891a5ebe5e9748b	69702 bytes
2	0xc0d5541a434710b0eccc21224ae4489f	49152 bytes
3	0x2980564b32b9c37e98811351c1424d32	69702 bytes
4	0xecaa5c99226636dcfc0153de9cf305ca	49152 bytes
5	0xbbcd5c091b98a1e2748efa2b3e8dc8d0	58904 bytes
6	0x40ac9fad20f60f079e3cac8615b4a2d3	40960 bytes
7	0x50f304f2531cfe78e78cb386b7a402e9	49152 bytes
8	0x3f71b745cd8834b925657c96657dd880	49152 bytes
9	0x43b431e3c5f9e281ec8ba146b1d98a77	49152 bytes
10	0x0659e562256d77412fdc52a1f33b64de	49152 bytes
11	0x9f26d32729c2d042938fb136db540064	49152 bytes
12	0x74618aa58356e9165092d8459e843952	58904 bytes
13	0x319510352f89bd6249a42fdc94f9a7e2	49152 bytes
14	0x6d12d9585b21c05d620613ff73e8629c	49152 bytes

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PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. 3cshtdwn.exe (3cshtdwn.exe) has been seen on 0.04% of systems tested at PC Pitstop. As a point of comparison, it is rare for a particular malicious program (virus or spyware) to be seen on more than one or two percent of all systems tested. The average RAM memory usage for this process was 1 MB. The average CPU load for this program was 0%.

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Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://www.usr.com/