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What is installiqupdater.exe? InstallIQ Updater?

Vendor:      W3i, LLC
Product:     InstallIQ Updater
Vendor Website:      http://www.w3i.com
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: The file InstallIQUpdater.exe is part of the program InstallIQ from the manufacturer W3i. Its task: InstallIQUpdater.exe checks and notifies you as soon as new updates are available for InstallIQ from the Internet. InstallIQUpdater.exe is normally found in the directory %programfiles%\W3i\InstallIQUpdater. If the file is located in another folder, you may have selected this path when installing the software. Under certain circumstances, this can also be an indication of a virus.

installiqupdater.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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installiqupdater.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.31%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
installiqupdater.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x013d640ee2ba28429ae422bf20a247d3 2/8/2019 3:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 0 KB
2 Status 0x75dc97ef9f6724731dcd98fe42fda65e 4/16/2015 2:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 1148 KB
3 Status 0x57feb2ee7b9484c7a21879096f20f45f 11/13/2014 4:39:00 AM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 984 KB
4 Status 0x882fb4dc6c90d6b8913f8d79d8a0d704 1/26/2012 7:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 0 KB
5 Status 0xaf6f3299b1c8c1cab18eb8c45a46e7b3 1/16/2012 6:44:00 PM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 977 KB
6 Status 0x2c39bd6aa78037a08d9286a877269f52 1/7/2012 11:53:00 PM Unknown Unknown InstallIQ Updater 0 KB


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