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What is mcshield.exe? McAfee Antivirus
| Vendor: Inc. |
| Product: |
| Vendor Website: http://www.mcafee.com |
| Last Seen by PC Pitstop: No Data |
PC Pitstop has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
PC Pitstop has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
PC Pitstop has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is good.This process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.PC Pitstop Analysis
Purpose: Mcshield.exe - Mcshield.exe represents McAfee Antivirus.
mcshield.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.
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mcshield.exe Technical Information
Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 1.19%
Average CPU use for this program: 11%
Average RAM for this program: 60 MB
MD5 Hash Analysis
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| mcshield.exe |
| MD5 Hashes | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Status | MD5 | File Info | Last Seen | Signed | Day | Week | Month | Threat info | |||
| 1 |
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0x87cc32f90123313a3febe6a71fc62dad |  |
6/15/2013 |  |
3 | 15 | 60 | Not Applicable | |||
| 2 |
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0xe96acd89e17d63d5966659e6424118cb | |
6/15/2013 | |
3 | 13 | 13 | Not Applicable | |||
| 3 |
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0xb74cebef7f2126f68cdc060c855e5aab | |
6/14/2013 | |
0 | 2 | 3 | Not Applicable | |||
| 4 |
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0xd075df11c65f1d370fcc5d3b976e6e72 | |
6/13/2013 |  |
0 | 1 | 5 | Not Applicable | |||
| 5 |
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0xef697a5b3cb3ce60f933a99c0041371f | |
3/2/2013 | |
0 | 0 | 0 | Not Applicable | |||
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | Status | MD5 | Last Seen | File Date | Revision | Common Name | Size | ||
| 1 |
 |
0xf83f25652d6b91f15630541429a216b4 | 5/28/2013 3:57:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 624 KB | ||
| 2 |
|
0x1bc80196637b64d019d433ddabee675b | 4/5/2013 11:04:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 197 KB | ||
| 3 |
|
0x6fe0532cb16300c09d098f808eaaee9d | 3/6/2013 4:35:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 199 KB | ||
| 4 |
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0xfd6a050996a86586cb6517d48cc3ad05 | 2/27/2013 11:53:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 163 KB | ||
| 5 |
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0x5ee20e5d3e334f88862f0d491c1c1fc1 | 2/25/2013 10:28:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 163 KB | ||
| 6 |
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0xfdde814145d01a986a10fe1ea5959b9f | 1/23/2013 10:27:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 198 KB | ||
| 7 |
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0x6c2d89c52da8592c57fb0dc7bab36ff7 | 12/11/2012 1:56:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 198 KB | ||
| 8 |
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0xe0ce4bd33b108b07e92ce3e399d0e81e | 9/29/2012 3:35:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 163 KB | ||
| 9 |
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0x381d3cea75f8baa8daab39be1487c339 | 9/25/2012 3:38:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 196 KB | ||
| 10 |
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0x6a78931e71218f38b2b4665d2ba79789 | 8/9/2012 8:00:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 196 KB | ||
| 11 |
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0x85db8ddd2d664716bb5b2d3405f9ef92 | 6/23/2012 7:13:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 12 |
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0xa521cd131a5b0f8554213eece0870824 | 6/8/2012 5:54:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 13 |
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0x1ff8a14225454a423f5ab81d06661b86 | 6/7/2012 9:57:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 14 |
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0x593fa4c378818ece76ba64a11ad56cf2 | 4/18/2012 7:54:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 15 |
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0xc422633a15502bc63b2be849beed33ed | 2/25/2012 11:40:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 16 |
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0x3b26ec4190c52dea7489302da526b0c7 | 2/8/2012 2:22:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 143 KB | ||
| 17 |
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0x16767b4cb7ae8f388e091717db34ff6c | 2/8/2012 1:44:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 18 |
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0x151f3ca25b739b9cb0066abd1523f064 | 2/8/2012 1:01:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 19 |
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0xf2861f8954d464f84c407a06a8d41d2f | 2/7/2012 5:44:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 167 KB | ||
| 20 |
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0x97addee4dc70929a8b482a7ae7842920 | 2/6/2012 10:06:00 PM | Unknown | 6.0.0 | McAfee Antivirus | 220 KB | ||
| 21 |
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0x7aab7c11dc184e98afdf18dba34e38f8 | 2/6/2012 3:39:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 141 KB | ||
| 22 |
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0x1fe222eaf4ba73ced5a0707b38f3c0b1 | 2/5/2012 8:17:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 162 KB | ||
| 23 |
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0xa88c0e2b549734349dc6152b4fe07397 | 2/5/2012 3:28:00 PM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 144 KB | ||
| 24 |
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0x74674b31a0fb66cadfe63101b336994e | 2/5/2012 8:23:00 AM | Unknown | Unknown | McAfee Antivirus | 581 KB | ||
| 25 |
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0x453a467a454be6f11a6b11b02f5df1bc | 2/4/2012 11:31:00 AM | Unknown | 7.1.0.116 | McAfee Antivirus | 232 KB | ||
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