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What is aawtray.exe? AAWTray Application?

Vendor:      
Product:     Tray Application
Vendor Website:      http://www.lavasoftusa.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.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
Process is goodPC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is good.
Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: AAWTray.exe - Tray for Ad-Aware. Based on the Lavasoft support forum, this application is only needed for Plus or Pro version of Ad-Aware. It appears that his process is not required for the free versions of Ad-Aware. It has been reported that this process has been removed from 7.0.2.2 and later versions of Ad-Aware free.

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


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aawtray.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: 0.70%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 15 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
aawtray.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x4566bbe928ef23e1c5a55d02d64c2872 11/6/2016 3:36:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
2 Status 0x029e76069e46d0eb41bf7551d119d010 8/31/2015 3:22:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 497 KB
3 Status 0x2cd3c21b57b2b1e5cc4c82519461c9d2 8/26/2015 5:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 507 KB
4 Status 0xe0911890a95d6b3572f65d747efdcdb6 6/7/2015 4:11:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
5 Status 0xa72a5e7c68f41954c0dfc2b291e63993 5/4/2015 10:22:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 770 KB
6 Status 0xc4533a02796462f203a4185ce9bf7b36 3/20/2015 10:22:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 795 KB
7 Status 0xedabcb9f60ad88fae7f3db7152b489aa 3/5/2015 11:24:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
8 Status 0x0264402f172985d49d324c20b9214f53 3/2/2015 2:25:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 494 KB
9 Status 0x8e374f572aab2a30e3f2fd4e56b678d0 11/24/2014 5:14:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 759 KB
10 Status 0x17b7ee982055ee0660a3c512d07e5111 9/15/2014 1:12:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 770 KB
11 Status 0xb895c862bc32f6d65892d7c7ff5b3f78 8/26/2014 3:56:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
12 Status 0x325ae24d5dae60af874c662bed7aa2e2 3/23/2012 12:01:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 1163 KB
13 Status 0x0830e6ba8463bef96cf69c1993f74a4b 2/8/2012 3:09:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 1159 KB
14 Status 0xa82f90aa786032f770ad8cfbb1be5d17 2/7/2012 3:30:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
15 Status 0x7fbead79082a406ca657b0ba5ec92f34 2/6/2012 2:59:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
16 Status 0xc9a1a096eadb859353e89571e189ce51 2/5/2012 10:40:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
17 Status 0xbb4588aebf480c95ad2b4fc92f99995d 1/13/2012 4:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 770 KB
18 Status 0x6436b3d3920aa7b45012d54524f95553 1/9/2012 9:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
19 Status 0x6f8f0ef862c6f67a09674620b7f5f418 1/9/2012 4:31:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 512 KB
20 Status 0xa852bec60713b0465dfb0e899fdadbc8 9/19/2011 9:30:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 0 KB
21 Status 0xa7035c7d3aaa24c5d71d6b5506f2d704 8/28/2011 10:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 503 KB
22 Status 0x86a9ae27ef2e9451c470ef27dce82422 8/28/2011 11:27:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 759 KB
23 Status 0x3acf4ef79afc707afb5d92ea26eab6aa 8/12/2011 9:57:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 769 KB
24 Status 0x1b7748915876999d61cf4b697b04b7e1 8/8/2011 1:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 504 KB
25 Status 0xaff05adc3a45de48ba888129001b4975 8/7/2011 11:36:00 PM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 844 KB

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x4659f02259d1b628b360ef4b092ccf01 1/25/2012 9:09:00 PM Unknown AAWTray Application 85 KB
2 Status 0xfbd18f0b3df65364826cebb4c469c259 6/21/2008 6:05:00 AM Unknown Unknown AAWTray Application 97 KB


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