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What is ghoststartservice.exe? Norton Ghost Start Service?

Vendor:      Symantec Corporation
Product:     Norton Ghost Start Service
Vendor Website:      http://www.symantec.com/norton/ghost
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: ghoststartservice.exe is a process belonging to the Norton Systemworks utility. Ghost allows you to make disk image-based copies of your hard disk drives.

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


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ghoststartservice.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: 0.08%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
ghoststartservice.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xbc9c77fac763d84bfdf09b55d4b41afa 4/20/2019 5:15:00 PM Unknown 2003.775 Norton Ghost Start Service 196 KB
2 Status 0xea0e4af8b6a11b2be17758d371ddf67b 1/5/2016 8:52:00 AM Unknown 2003.793 Norton Ghost 196 KB
3 Status 0xbd98f4d6ccaa81f422316b587c7da8c1 2/8/2012 12:14:00 AM Unknown 2003.789 Norton Ghost 196 KB
4 Status 0xaa6416910a561ad86b1ad20cde131fee 2/3/2010 4:25:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 204 KB
5 Status 0xcda37eb0e01be050c12a22eb522c14de 5/30/2009 8:03:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 196 KB
6 Status 0xfd9858760dbf74f79d79ad54a94b817b 3/22/2009 9:46:00 PM Unknown 2003.775 Norton Ghost 196 KB
7 Status 0x481bc84e5a971a90bc3af3c5eb3cd0ef 2/13/2009 8:56:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 196 KB
8 Status 0x862852e28bb9ee6182039c2695957e7f 9/3/2008 5:57:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 232 KB
9 Status 0xabf473e2c9737626243d64a76dc94380 8/8/2008 2:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 208 KB
10 Status 0x5ce4587730784ba0364a9e11dd5154d6 7/7/2008 8:45:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost Start Service 196 KB
11 Status 0x59252c75e47255c77263e0e3f69aaef6 12/31/2007 Unknown 2003.793 Norton Ghost 204 KB


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