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What is popups~1.exe? POPUPS~1.EXE?

Vendor:      Panicware, Inc.
Product:     Pop-Up Stopper Professional
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.
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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: POPUPS~1.EXE - PopUp protection software from PanicWare.

popups~1.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


popups~1.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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popups~1.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: 8 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
popups~1.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xe18d9ca374e0916198a062bcc4f66389 10/26/2014 10:11:00 AM Unknown 1, 80, 0, 1000 POPUPS~1.EXE 504 KB
2 Status 0x7c3f82dffa9269266409109aa01114ab 1/10/2012 6:39:00 AM Unknown 1, 52, 0, 1004 POPUPS~1.EXE 496 KB
3 Status 0x483bce3d599177ad90508b83209c6e96 5/24/2011 12:00:00 PM Unknown 1, 55, 0, 1000 POPUPS~1.EXE 496 KB
4 Status 0x46c1d87631baba33685d5f997cf3a6ba 11/28/2009 12:45:00 AM Unknown 1, 2, 0, 1022 POPUPS~1.EXE 484 KB
5 Status 0x3ba84bfa6d311771f6e9d81d2aee38af 11/22/2009 1:11:00 AM Unknown 1, 60, 0, 1000 POPUPS~1.EXE 496 KB
6 Status 0xb31b53a0683d2ba97be0cb2fcbfc2804 2/18/2009 7:13:00 PM Unknown 1, 80, 0, 1000 POPUPS~1.EXE 504 KB
7 Status 0xa8251e5a0fb573d20ec37de211ebf1b9 4/6/2008 7:13:00 AM Unknown Unknown POPUPS~1.EXE 504 KB


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