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What is pcalert4.exe? MSI HW Monitor?

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Product:     PCAlert4
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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: PCAlert4.exe - Used with MSI brand motherboards to monitor system status such as CPU temperature and fan speeds. Since most of these hardware parameters do not change significantly, we recommend that most users disable this utility unless they suspect hardware problems are causing system reliability problems.

pcalert4.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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pcalert4.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: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
pcalert4.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x053fe759c0042a7dae3fc49afc14f49c 2/1/2012 12:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 544 KB
2 Status 0x9c79198fee8dcba4c1e0bc10c1daa5cf 1/21/2012 9:35:00 PM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 544 KB
3 Status 0xa189f64fae24a8a749f5f6ac23979298 9/8/2011 6:03:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 4 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
4 Status 0x91f247ed807e04dc73bc801a972282a9 9/4/2011 11:04:00 AM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 0 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
5 Status 0x0d9a3be1c83aa4d94c7e4172cab22ed3 6/18/2011 2:01:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 0 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
6 Status 0x207e3a2178d527f2149039a8573b9eb6 6/16/2011 1:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 544 KB
7 Status 0xfb55382b191739204cf654a5afdb4a0f 6/10/2011 7:15:00 AM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 532 KB
8 Status 0x953cd4214066084d8d4fadf936f6df77 5/28/2011 8:30:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 1, 0 MSI HW Monitor 532 KB
9 Status 0xfd69739114baa85f9d2f3efdb77a775d 5/19/2011 4:56:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 0, 6 MSI HW Monitor 528 KB
10 Status 0xeca244ed507c3d340214fa23a335cb32 3/22/2011 12:40:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 3 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
11 Status 0xc66a74eb2252f5d2db51312fcea3c8d2 2/11/2011 7:16:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 5 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
12 Status 0xd56bb7b6e349cdf5e78e7049f667dd07 2/4/2011 9:19:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 2, 1 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
13 Status 0x2c36c13f6bb9cd6e3a092aeb8a20337d 10/17/2010 2:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 524 KB
14 Status 0xf43449754ba65cf539337e0d64b8dd9b 8/15/2010 1:23:00 AM Unknown 4, 0, 7, 4 MSI HW Monitor 524 KB
15 Status 0x113aaccb1f8334ee676314c978457dbc 8/3/2010 8:52:00 AM Unknown 4, 1, 1, 5 MSI HW Monitor 532 KB
16 Status 0xe66d6cd37af17fee2a88287e34c7c5ac 6/12/2010 11:33:00 AM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
17 Status 0x7f0c3414e93365b9d20abbfd48c9c4c9 6/9/2010 8:08:00 AM Unknown Unknown MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
18 Status 0x428fc107b8c62f1fa34dfc2fd5910494 4/25/2010 9:28:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
19 Status 0x635f5771a7963b3b4074133cb3ebe000 4/21/2010 11:16:00 PM Unknown 4, 1, 1, 8 MSI HW Monitor 536 KB
20 Status 0x48c7f7bf7a8cb946f267f34c6176669b 1/26/2010 8:49:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 MSI HW Monitor 536 KB
21 Status 0x8266c15a99d3008c01ab305dbbb87814 12/29/2009 11:20:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
22 Status 0x272998a59b930422d6920a413ab6c5b7 12/15/2009 7:02:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 MSI HW Monitor 536 KB
23 Status 0xf9996f9ea379ed4f45e28ccf7c386a62 11/18/2009 11:52:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 MSI HW Monitor 540 KB
24 Status 0xf5d57a6e35404a6e2da4acdb43a62ab0 11/18/2009 1:45:00 AM Unknown 4, 1, 0, 4 MSI HW Monitor 524 KB
25 Status 0xaefb2a81e60d8bb65fe98a4d069f6d42 11/12/2009 6:05:00 PM Unknown 4, 0, 6, 7 MSI HW Monitor 532 KB


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