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What is googlecrashhandler.exe? GoogleCrashHandler?

Vendor:      Google Inc
Product:     Google Update
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.
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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: GoogleCrashHandler.exe is a helper file for the Google Update software, if you have Google Update installed on your system, you will see an instance of GoogleCrashHandler running when you visit the processes tab in Task manager. GoogleCrashHandler.exe runs continuously on your computer if you’ve selected to send anonymous usage statistics and crash reports to Google for certain Google software, like Google Chrome. It helps send crash details to Google when your Google software unexpectedly shuts down. They use this data to help determine how to prevent these errors from happening in the future. To stop GoogleCrashHandler.exe from running, turn off the sending of usage statistics and crash reports for all the Google software on your computer.

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


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googlecrashhandler.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: 0.98%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
googlecrashhandler.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x99bce67dff1a5d1cd0233e5699dbefb8 2/8/2012 12:17:00 AM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB
2 Status 0xde35c2310aa5c7cba03e454cdc5a6ea2 2/1/2012 10:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB
3 Status 0x2c4e4832e8a95f868fd0e9be416b4e1e 1/31/2012 4:27:00 AM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB
4 Status 0x22c1cd7c641fe360734a88156d0ffcfe 1/23/2012 8:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB
5 Status 0xa9867222ae8a4a96d18ce6db6e3a2310 1/20/2012 1:35:00 AM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB
6 Status 0x0731c1c224668d011a7fd564ce58b825 1/18/2012 1:55:00 PM Unknown Unknown GoogleCrashHandler 0 KB


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