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What is instan~1.exe? TextBridge Pro?

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Vendor Website:      http://www.scansoft.com/textbridge/
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

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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: INSTAN~1.EXE - TextBridge Pro 9.0 OCR scanner software. If disabled, scanner will not have full functionality.

instan~1.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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instan~1.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: 2 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
instan~1.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xef5fe31ef2a0c741de3c5650de0f5e91 4/23/2018 3:16:00 AM Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
2 Status 0xc61eebaf8ef308a03c94b81dd20ca322 7/15/2016 8:37:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 30 KB
3 Status 0x3dd59e908d6769d9d6fcf7e2cff9117f 7/7/2016 8:47:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 33 KB
4 Status 0xe932c9a2a10ceac450bf36d56b55ccb2 2/7/2012 4:40:00 AM Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
5 Status 0x7668193f7dc461b10c11cb3e72a70656 2/6/2012 3:01:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 31 KB
6 Status 0x4c9e72e657bc01618c53c15196999a6f 1/18/2012 9:34:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
7 Status 0x86ff933de93ba86af48417c5b86c1c1a 1/8/2012 11:28:00 AM Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
8 Status 0xd10f5eacfaada1da0343caba7eaf76b8 8/17/2011 9:57:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 37 KB
9 Status 0xbb5fae8b613672f5e3118dde9ff30228 4/6/2011 9:45:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 31 KB
10 Status 0x3eda623c6d2fb084266482593acbde1b 3/16/2011 11:20:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 30 KB
11 Status 0xdc4d38f3423afaf998bec3cdba37fe75 1/23/2011 11:16:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 34 KB
12 Status 0xf7e12a5df83d160f5645add56e6ca583 1/22/2011 12:53:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 30 KB
13 Status 0x75026a3cd8fec84c56815fa28bc70172 3/26/2010 5:00:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 30 KB
14 Status 0xf1fbc25559da8e1950e6d1ec59373630 12/4/2009 12:12:00 AM Unknown Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
15 Status 0x140e2db67a3371df997c49f477fab871 4/15/2009 3:32:00 PM Unknown TextBridge Pro 36 KB
16 Status 0x8c001beca02f0698cea1ab2cf18da7e5 4/23/2008 4:00:00 AM Unknown Unknown TextBridge Pro 79 KB


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