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What is askservice.exe? AskService?

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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: AskService.exe is related to the Ask Toolbar.

askservice.exe uses excessive system and memory resources with no corresponding benefit. Applications such as these should be disabled to improve overall system performance.


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askservice.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: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
askservice.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x1499db3152c636b7fb3d6bb9d47a9485 1/8/2015 6:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown AskService 453 KB
2 Status 0x7b44f870fc2da172c5367d9e3f96f553 11/26/2014 4:01:00 AM Unknown Unknown AskService 453 KB
3 Status 0x0ad63526f1d224b63a60d240064fdf24 9/4/2011 10:08:00 PM Unknown Unknown AskService 453 KB
4 Status 0xb92255f2167d3c5079044e2e31721cf8 8/21/2011 11:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown AskService 453 KB
5 Status 0x2532138a2a2c8478083a631b705724ed 7/31/2011 1:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown AskService 453 KB
6 Status 0xadaebf7d16e09b72cd67474038514f6c 4/18/2011 10:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown AskService 449 KB
7 Status 0xecb1f171e7517afba7db832269f95f30 4/5/2011 4:25:00 AM Unknown Unknown AskService 541 KB


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