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What is hpwamain.exe? HP Wireless Assistant?

Vendor:      Hewlett-Packard
Product:     HP Wireless Assistant
Vendor Website:      http://www.hp.com/
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.
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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: HPWAMain.exe - HPWAMain.exe is HP wireless internet setup assistant. It is an application that provides control and setup of wireless devices such as Bluetooth and WLAN. It also shows their current state or monitors these devices.

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


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hpwamain.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: 0.33%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 5 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
hpwamain.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xf3c9adcbf74090552edc76f81a553d81 6/29/2020 5:12:00 AM Unknown 3, 0, 2, 1 HP Wireless Assistant 461 KB
2 Status 0x8cb896c573fd15ae8b13180da53e93d2 6/7/2020 4:49:00 AM Unknown 3, 0, 9, 1 HP Wireless Assistant 477 KB
3 Status 0xaf849798eca383184c88ed436cf3efb2 8/1/2018 3:27:00 AM Unknown 3, 0, 5, 1 HP Wireless Assistant 461 KB
4 Status 0xcb4ee42ee2d33a58efd48c276b683663 2/18/2018 5:27:00 PM Unknown 3, 0, 8, 2 HP Wireless Assistant 469 KB
5 Status 0x58435b686b9d578082f693858ea3246e 10/20/2017 7:45:00 PM Unknown 3, 0, 8, 3 HP Wireless Assistant 469 KB
6 Status 0xda4ed31dd43abb0af99888e236ffdb91 8/29/2017 4:24:00 AM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 487 KB
7 Status 0x5a37afebf3ecab3871a8c4f485500320 5/17/2017 1:00:00 PM Unknown 3, 0, 4, 1 HP Wireless Assistant 461 KB
8 Status 0xd018f156d00d4c2ddcd0d11118e4ae81 1/11/2017 10:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 488 KB
9 Status 0x692493b9136287c06de23f7ce823fc40 10/22/2016 4:30:00 AM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 422 KB
10 Status 0xa42bf2034166aa1ee9ad3cacdc374ba5 10/1/2016 2:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 495 KB
11 Status 0xe657f12cba894ac768cda2b6963663e7 2/1/2016 1:30:00 PM Unknown 3, 0, 7, 1 HP Wireless Assistant 461 KB
12 Status 0xac04e26828895435afa7379e27780bc7 7/16/2015 12:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 494 KB
13 Status 0xd5bf6f7cd2f0cf8c01c98b12d0a29d06 10/23/2014 7:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 473 KB
14 Status 0x6a5143f11c1c35803d67a577e9f8524c 1/15/2010 3:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 533 KB
15 Status 0x419155fe9f356fff7cc241fa1b793a25 12/5/2008 3:08:00 PM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 537 KB
16 Status 0x4a84f08d15aca40b4a1de772a718db30 4/20/2008 9:09:00 AM Unknown Unknown HP Wireless Assistant 464 KB


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