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What is navapw32.exe? Norton AntiVirus?

Vendor:      Symantec
Product:     AntiVirus
Vendor Website:     
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: NAVAPW32.EXE - Provides real-time virus protection. If you disable this it will improve performance (disk in particular), but can be risky if you are prone to being infected by computer viruses. Even with real-time scanning disabled, you can manually scan for viruses using Norton AntiVirus or schedule a regular scan using Windows Task Scheduler. To disable real time scanning, Start Norton Antivirus and select Tools | Options from the menu. In the Auto-Protect tab, clear the check box next to "Load Auto-Protect at Startup."

navapw32.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


navapw32.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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navapw32.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 6 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
navapw32.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x89edb06c1ea1a7f4a513ff1dbecbf73b 1/28/2012 4:03:00 AM Unknown 8.07.17 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
2 Status 0x3c3bdf21015642aa2dcd7e757c413049 1/7/2012 1:45:00 AM Unknown 8.00.58 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
3 Status 0x9d5812a2e95cd2f5d878f9559c6436cf 4/3/2011 8:57:00 PM Unknown 8.00.6 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
4 Status 0xf8f3c9a47d8f7d09c7732a7df9d3f9ee 12/9/2010 11:49:00 PM Unknown 7.00.00.51 Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
5 Status 0x18e85771b4f0a867515cbf52f700e159 11/4/2010 9:46:00 AM Unknown 8.00.1 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
6 Status 0x785837ea0ac60703916fc54215c050a6 5/18/2010 3:11:00 AM Unknown 8.00.19 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
7 Status 0xdb7791653f215df9af7c07b159f00d79 5/2/2010 4:27:00 PM Unknown 7.08.00.28 Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
8 Status 0x23667ef758dd0a2f9416601227ae607d 3/20/2010 2:30:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
9 Status 0xf21a3f06906d761ac732e6233c598056 1/31/2010 4:01:00 AM Unknown 8.07.17 Norton AntiVirus 77 KB
10 Status 0xeac6aa8115489ec8f624e9a24b9a9029 1/21/2010 3:15:00 AM Unknown 7.07.00.23 Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
11 Status 0x98351cdc91f106f5ee70f161abe92c84 1/21/2010 2:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 77 KB
12 Status 0x5dda585bfb28fb74082e5f9a179953bf 1/20/2010 7:09:00 PM Unknown 6.1.0.06 Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
13 Status 0xe8df55c3ce27ef9e5b5a09d130f4cd73 10/24/2009 9:18:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
14 Status 0xd642729d51e5d2e4b2b5a56647d3fb95 10/22/2009 6:16:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
15 Status 0x65bd1244732417025b94efc81f9684e5 9/20/2009 8:18:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
16 Status 0x8ff23ebedb8a0e30c3048dd70a23c2b5 8/8/2009 11:05:00 AM Unknown 8.07.17 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
17 Status 0xf9a9dc1b61d0f7b7662612989d6d5e58 7/9/2009 6:04:00 PM Unknown 8.00.58 Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
18 Status 0x23849cd9e1dd199407cd2b2f5a0bdd95 5/16/2009 8:20:00 PM Unknown 8.00.58 Norton AntiVirus 77 KB
19 Status 0xb1b31167617fd75ce070603a52055634 5/11/2009 5:02:00 PM Unknown 5.3.0.25 Norton AntiVirus 106 KB
20 Status 0xe3420fe432833f9d2b771e9250137a47 5/7/2009 11:30:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
21 Status 0xd028987384fefecd88d9c7d858eac541 5/2/2009 5:16:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 120 KB
22 Status 0x0feb7f97363a3238616b24875c0789f4 4/29/2009 1:25:00 AM Unknown 5.0.0.26 Norton AntiVirus 202 KB
23 Status 0x4c6ee18f06a4b95697fd51fa5aa1745f 3/29/2009 4:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton AntiVirus 73 KB
24 Status 0xd977d284c53fd7381562a9a72cc9470e 2/8/2009 1:30:00 PM Unknown 8.00.58 Norton AntiVirus 77 KB
25 Status 0x07dbe9bc33cc6f02be9c2796ff8f1c83 1/28/2009 10:54:00 PM Unknown 8.00.58 Norton AntiVirus 77 KB


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