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What is acs.exe? Atheros Configuration Service?

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Vendor Website:      http://www.atheros.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.
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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: acs.exe is a Driver for/related to Atheros Wireless LAN. Unnecessary if wirless is controlled by windows

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


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acs.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: 0.56%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 6 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
acs.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x57e569b5123e984133769e287a25a819 10/23/2018 1:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 464 KB
2 Status 0x3b5c664e96ecab408369ef99266008e0 2/5/2018 1:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 491 KB
3 Status 0x8cddbfcdac7226fe0202c7338107725b 1/30/2018 9:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 456 KB
4 Status 0x233235123f3d73228ec3d2bba0e7143d 1/22/2018 10:21:00 PM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
5 Status 0x552cf8b82150c0e70d5b017f32efa067 9/25/2017 2:37:00 PM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
6 Status 0x4b3d99792be5bfa9296f4c3f0b7157d3 7/6/2017 5:20:00 AM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
7 Status 0x5ac144f03b31afab6717ad3622d1680d 3/25/2017 4:01:00 AM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 488 KB
8 Status 0x75265152c2a2d1cbd2df180d63081d01 3/8/2017 6:47:00 AM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 484 KB
9 Status 0x67bc8aadd8b8b16313850460723b013c 2/2/2017 9:38:00 AM Unknown 6.0.1.55 Atheros Configuration Service 352 KB
10 Status 0x4acf9052a6355d1530cf782e0919c5b4 11/20/2016 6:06:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 484 KB
11 Status 0xba167ae910de9a52f25c179c4a334979 10/24/2016 11:50:00 PM Unknown 6.0.0.25 Atheros Configuration Service 360 KB
12 Status 0xd422da79b86cf3b7fafd4ce85052f2f6 10/1/2016 9:14:00 AM Unknown 5.2.0.103 Atheros Configuration Service 356 KB
13 Status 0x34f47d90cba04fe11c9848c8c54274c1 5/17/2016 6:54:00 PM Unknown 5.2.0.134 Atheros Configuration Service 356 KB
14 Status 0x18d8ffa70deea82f02c40d95aa41146f 4/24/2016 2:39:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 488 KB
15 Status 0xcd184ae9246dea759c916fd85c5433da 2/20/2016 4:59:00 AM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 456 KB
16 Status 0x4347e540765216a9e22970353090a13a 1/21/2016 11:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 488 KB
17 Status 0x67a50e32687d4d5235e2df07e680bc1c 1/21/2016 3:47:00 PM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
18 Status 0xf7f9513070cc9698c02acb747070e04c 12/7/2015 3:27:00 AM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
19 Status 0x88459ac0f5d5a1aa60e56b5e6070ed0f 11/18/2015 8:48:00 PM Unknown 5.0.0.359 Atheros Configuration Service 352 KB
20 Status 0x539802224d334c25ac439ff0518d36cd 10/20/2015 4:36:00 AM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
21 Status 0xb7b9c832dbf95465723f2d7f8ed9acb1 9/24/2015 9:09:00 AM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
22 Status 0x5bd5bd0727b95261c54bd68b0e376ef2 8/8/2015 4:17:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 488 KB
23 Status 0x276a114fd1de8232211f299e90da8e3a 7/25/2015 9:57:00 PM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
24 Status 0xcd1eb85ddf9241f82d0fca835a00f7eb 6/19/2015 11:30:00 AM Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 36 KB
25 Status 0x2bad567ddba52cc96518b06682e78940 5/4/2015 3:56:00 PM Unknown Unknown Atheros Configuration Service 456 KB


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