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What is pdesk.exe? Matrox Power Desk?

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Vendor Website:      http://www.matrox.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.
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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: Pdesk.exe provides a system tray icon that opens a menu/application for adjusting the various settings of a Matrox video card.

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


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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
pdesk.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xb19a5c90fe3f696c91ec13c503dcf4e9 11/26/2021 8:07:00 PM Unknown Version 4.08 Matrox Power Desk 696 KB
2 Status 0x7a759f8c103dddc8e476c3f841566289 3/22/2015 7:31:00 PM Unknown 6.95.005 Matrox Power Desk 668 KB
3 Status 0x86dcd63b91a32bd3a9f6e649de511a19 10/21/2014 4:52:00 AM Unknown 6.96.004 Matrox Power Desk 668 KB
4 Status 0x3606188bcf3c4d2f37ec33469d8ba219 10/17/2014 4:55:00 PM Unknown 6.71.014 Matrox Power Desk 608 KB
5 Status 0x127fb6cac55847845884ddff862a5fc0 7/21/2014 7:56:00 PM Unknown 6.93.009 Matrox Power Desk 668 KB
6 Status 0x806bdcfc5fb322dc277b15f9a3ff761a 8/2/2011 12:43:00 PM Unknown 6.82.016 Matrox Power Desk 636 KB
7 Status 0x20ba796c85690526886ca6a5e5234167 7/4/2011 3:51:00 AM Unknown 6.86.027 Matrox Power Desk 648 KB
8 Status 0xd457c2b1751ce5a77d8c7a0d149521b9 5/27/2011 12:22:00 PM Unknown 5.0.1.6 Matrox Power Desk 736 KB
9 Status 0xb184ff9f0f8f6cdf0e0fb97e3db5ed8d 9/22/2010 12:44:00 PM Unknown 6.74.020 Matrox Power Desk 608 KB
10 Status 0x5cfcf5aa5471b044e9d8e7368bf40bf0 8/14/2010 7:57:00 PM Unknown 6.92.004 Matrox Power Desk 652 KB
11 Status 0x16ea046251b67f9bc118c94bc6eebe2d 8/8/2010 12:46:00 AM Unknown 6.88.060 Matrox Power Desk 648 KB
12 Status 0xaa746544c5f39b32a91a0c8fe45d3c32 7/23/2010 9:17:00 PM Unknown 6.72.018 Matrox Power Desk 608 KB
13 Status 0xdb2422e535dd3cdb3693a11afa998054 4/29/2010 1:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 452 KB
14 Status 0xc37797eeed2e768176421d32b1b877f3 4/28/2010 8:48:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 504 KB
15 Status 0x32cb3a8b46d145a4c767a54324455dff 4/15/2010 8:32:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 668 KB
16 Status 0xd1ecdbd1ace828119c6189cabfb0ca20 3/21/2010 12:24:00 AM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 492 KB
17 Status 0x9142c2cfebb7d5b6960d62ffd89b5367 3/15/2010 2:46:00 PM Unknown 6.15.059 Matrox Power Desk 492 KB
18 Status 0x9a2d1241c492f60ae935870019612c8d 2/21/2010 1:20:00 AM Unknown 6.26.057 Matrox Power Desk 504 KB
19 Status 0xb85e1f65caec6f615ac0ed795b56ab43 2/17/2010 9:12:00 AM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 2941 KB
20 Status 0x2e4febc7016aea2e685dc71db31b86d0 2/12/2010 6:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 3504 KB
21 Status 0x92cb90ad0c38493fc0f89ddbc3bf0bac 2/11/2010 9:59:00 AM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 3458 KB
22 Status 0x83c2f31706e10a32c3133cdd054ef4d7 1/12/2010 1:12:00 AM Unknown 6.91.005 Matrox Power Desk 652 KB
23 Status 0xdee06b24ef5b57aa6d4805e4e5510eb1 12/2/2009 1:04:00 AM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 653 KB
24 Status 0xcc15d539d6d15340a87850b80dc3f419 11/5/2009 5:36:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 652 KB
25 Status 0x4d63c30c4738723532a931d1897f9a4a 10/31/2009 11:43:00 PM Unknown Unknown Matrox Power Desk 652 KB


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