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What is noads.exe? NoAds?

Vendor:      South Bay Software
Product:     NoAds
Vendor Website:      http://www.southbaypc.com/
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: NoAds.exe is the popup blocker from South Bay Software.

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


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noads.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: 0.27%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
noads.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xf2c3f48a9348466cf8ffcfb1b4390873 5/28/2019 9:48:00 AM Unknown 2006.07.28 NoAds 148 KB
2 Status 0xbe742df113bd8fd0d3f9b487b08a089f 11/16/2014 7:22:00 PM Unknown 2005.02.12 NoAds 124 KB
3 Status 0x8af2fda44a10382df6505d5bae0a5bcd 9/16/2011 8:25:00 PM Unknown 2004.08.28 NoAds 124 KB
4 Status 0x9ae45d89b2e446665f4664b834295e93 7/29/2011 1:19:00 AM Unknown 2002.11.05 NoAds 120 KB
5 Status 0xa83783bc89375d86223cb7f644c164d4 7/25/2011 5:31:00 AM Unknown 2006.04.29 NoAds 124 KB
6 Status 0xa616c40f3c0788fb33e43f171f32ac6e 1/28/2010 4:39:00 PM Unknown 2006.02.04 NoAds 124 KB
7 Status 0xac8c12201d1b3303d7662e76d6304a00 9/3/2009 4:24:00 PM Unknown 2002.05.25 NoAds 116 KB
8 Status 0xbe7a56d3fc4bf7a18f6e357a242ff926 4/7/2009 8:46:00 PM Unknown Unknown NoAds 128 KB
9 Status 0xe3f8978853ab5b63a2e02471e84c7657 4/5/2009 3:48:00 AM Unknown 2006.07.09 NoAds 148 KB
10 Status 0x9dcc531679312308086712305d0bc4ea 12/2/2008 10:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown NoAds 120 KB
11 Status 0x2aa6f03a4b3ec2637730df8aca5910e9 7/20/2008 3:14:00 PM Unknown 2002.05.14 NoAds 116 KB
12 Status 0xd39abebc6ff0b64d07e7920757ec336c 7/9/2008 4:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown NoAds 112 KB


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