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More than one possible match was found; all matches are listed below in order of their prevalence. This only tells you what the file and the correct action might be.
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Match #1
aexagentuihost.exe (Altiris Agent)
Prevalence
Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.03%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB
Identification
In addition to the file name, aexagentuihost.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: | Altiris |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | Altiris Agent |
| File name contains: | \Altiris\Altiris Agent\ |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
Vendor or Distributor's Web Site
http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=altiris
PC Pitstop Analysis
According to Symantec:
ALTIRIS AND SYMANTEC ARE NOW ONE COMPANY. We are currently in the process of migrating content and functionality from the Altiris websites, and have created this page to assist you in navigating to Altiris-related product, support, and services information.
Altiris service-oriented management solutions provide a modular and future-proof approach to managing highly diverse and widely distributed IT infrastructures. They are open solutions that enable lifecycle integration of client, handheld, server, network and other IT assets with audit-ready security and automated operation.
This process hosts the system tray icon for those computers logged onto the NS via terminal services. In addition, you will see one instance of this process for each user logged on to the system.
There is a registry key setting that can keep AexAgentUIHost.exe from loading for each user:
HKLM\Software\Altiris\Altiris Agent\Run UI in main Session only.
Changing the value to 1 will keep the process from loading for every user
aexagentuihost.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.
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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 aexagentuihost.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| aexagentuihost.exe | > 10 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0x8230ab6872b64c328a91220d08d0adad | 163840 bytes | |||||
| 2 | 0xc48f044ee4de9c484df315ba4ccb5e96 | 163840 bytes | |||||
| 3 | 0xe688a3148376fe55b8efcf463491c384 | 163840 bytes | |||||
| 4 | 0x1f67ac2d18309ff2c5813da53920a191 | 191024 bytes | |||||
| 5 | 0xb735f8b85f00ef1fd87a9d2c0eadc417 | 163840 bytes | |||||
| MD5 Hashes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | ||
| 6 | 0xa318275a826f42a4e9c24244f2c963f0 | 155648 bytes | ||
| 7 | 0x3fe331c2e20ec69529fff2e0d61ed24f | 193072 bytes | ||
| 8 | 0xfc943e9cd5a9458a09cf5bad93de0873 | 191784 bytes | ||
| 9 | 0x3130494dde0e26501c025c5b75078e89 | 173352 bytes | ||
| 10 | 0x3ae81f1193f841247ef6ab8abf2b6fbf | 173352 bytes | ||
Match #2
aexagentuihost.exe (AeXAgentUIHost.exe)
Prevalence
Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 5 MB
Identification
In addition to the file name, aexagentuihost.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: | Altiris, Inc. |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | Altiris Agent |
| File name contains: | \Program Files\Altiris\Altiris Agent\AeXAgentUIHost.exe |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
PC Pitstop Analysis
AeXAgentUIHost.exe -
aexagentuihost.exe is returning insufficient information about this program.
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Important Note
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