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What is bingbar.exe? BingBar?

Vendor:      Microsoft Corporation
Product:     Bing Bar
Vendor Website:     
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: Not Required software - recommend uninstalling - Bing Bar (formerly MSN Toolbar)[1] is a browser extension toolbar for Internet Explorer, developed by Microsoft. Bing Bar replaced Windows Live Toolbar in Windows Live Essentials 2011 ("Wave 4") announced on June 23, 2010.[2] Bing Bar was previously supported on Mozilla Firefox but Microsoft discontinued support.[3]

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


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bingbar.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: 0.45%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
bingbar.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xa6f2666cd9d20c9dfea0c09b01678bc6 9/14/2014 6:18:00 PM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB
2 Status 0x4f3a5ad486b8faf623b9a40c2bbda258 6/4/2012 6:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown BingBar 479 KB
3 Status 0x65f8418c1bd51981059269f2a833f28a 2/7/2012 6:05:00 PM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB
4 Status 0xdbd1afd8791e9fabf15b35ae7de2fa94 2/6/2012 12:14:00 AM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB
5 Status 0xf52a42b7b67db0bbffe038114fc0e3df 2/4/2012 11:46:00 AM Unknown Unknown BingBar 382 KB
6 Status 0x7cac78fd03ee2925f9f214a016952bdb 2/3/2012 5:52:00 AM Unknown Unknown BingBar 388 KB
7 Status 0x4d75dfdf2dd73e8b413b4ff0fcb336e0 1/29/2012 10:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB
8 Status 0x0bf3cafe04e07f9ed4e1a6b564c18e74 1/29/2012 9:59:00 PM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB
9 Status 0x7ec0f15cdc572b43ac34452923129893 1/29/2012 2:00:00 AM Unknown Unknown BingBar 0 KB


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