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What is hwapi.exe? McAfee Hacker Watch Service?

Vendor:      McAfee
Product:     McAfee HackerWatch Service
Vendor Website:      http://www.mcafee.com/us/
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: HWAPI.exe - McAfee's Hacker Watch service manages information concerning known/attempted hackers.

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


hwapi.exe is known to be a bad process. Learn more about protecting your PC from these bad processes with PC Matic.
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hwapi.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: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
hwapi.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x38bccf016b694a745e1cdbc0b080a59c 1/25/2015 12:08:00 AM Unknown 8.3.105.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 528 KB
2 Status 0x359b5c5cab0ca31061506e51ccbaf4b1 1/20/2012 11:52:00 AM Unknown 8.2.104.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 528 KB
3 Status 0x0ef6a70f0e4413964d8dd836167547e8 3/14/2011 9:46:00 AM Unknown 8.0.163.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 541 KB
4 Status 0xde8fbaa08877900b7f23e518e4221c9c 2/15/2011 10:30:00 PM Unknown 8.0.162.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 541 KB
5 Status 0xe54fc0a7aaa256e2f4265d903b432b6c 5/7/2010 9:10:00 PM Unknown 8.1.105.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 541 KB
6 Status 0x0d7bdb195ccf08d760d6d67b9e2c4aad 3/7/2010 3:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee Hacker Watch Service 741 KB
7 Status 0x002d007083cac21685a715ad128fb044 10/16/2009 8:32:00 PM Unknown 8.1.101.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 541 KB
8 Status 0x2e4a58a16bc9d33a8b30f438edeb85e8 4/10/2008 11:46:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee Hacker Watch Service 541 KB
9 Status 0xc32f8c7785d6be7d1a06959ba9c3dd14 12/31/2007 Unknown 8.3.105.0 McAfee Hacker Watch Service 528 KB


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