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What is hpzinw12.exe? HPZinw12.exe?

Vendor:      HP
Product:     HP Dot4Net Windows
Vendor Website:      http://www.hp.com/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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Purpose: HPZinw12.exe - IEEE-1284.4-1999 Network Driver (Windows) belongs to the software HP Dot4Net Windows

hpzinw12.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


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hpzinw12.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: 5 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
hpzinw12.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x9d627a21ba0326009111d17f64453c10 4/28/2015 7:21:00 PM Unknown 10, 1, 1, 2 HPZinw12.exe 64 KB
2 Status 0xfbe5d2ad9912c064bb16112768087003 11/7/2014 2:45:00 PM Unknown 10, 1, 1, 5 HPZinw12.exe 64 KB
3 Status 0xdac898e74fc2a35c9766fa51b27897bd 9/22/2014 9:17:00 PM Unknown 9, 0, 0, 0 HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
4 Status 0xa05c2e0afee4300b536348f83651125f 1/24/2012 4:19:00 AM Unknown 8, 0, 0, 0 HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
5 Status 0x2f34f8bc64f20be15ecb72956f115595 9/20/2011 8:32:00 AM Unknown Unknown HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
6 Status 0x639ca09f126f890322ed0f7a2fae135e 3/3/2010 4:09:00 AM Unknown 7, 0, 0, 0 HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
7 Status 0x2dc2625f1baff873ae4904b71d158d76 12/28/2009 7:09:00 AM Unknown 10, 1, 0, 2 HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
8 Status 0x5d721dae611518ed60fd9df0605d2ad9 3/10/2009 2:02:00 AM Unknown Unknown HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
9 Status 0xb4073cb45b572ffac622feb731b803f7 12/19/2008 12:43:00 PM Unknown 7, 0, 5, 0 HPZinw12.exe 60 KB
10 Status 0xe5bf627cdb436e56c0a7b3227f1d7ce8 12/31/2007 Unknown 10, 1, 1, 5 HPZinw12.exe 64 KB
11 Status 0x3e2b4503a5f1b4bc807b0120b03c87ed 12/31/2007 Unknown 10, 1, 1, 2 HPZinw12.exe 64 KB


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