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What is ppactivedetection.exe? PestPatrol?

Vendor:      Computer Associates
Product:     eTrust PestPatrol
Vendor Website:      http://www.ca.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.
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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: PPActiveDetection.exe - PestPatrol real-time protection feature. "Stops spyware before it infects your system."

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


ppactivedetection.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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ppactivedetection.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: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 19 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
ppactivedetection.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x712ad2dfe10f896aff94e4a588bc55c1 2/4/2012 10:53:00 AM Unknown 5, 0, 1, 6 PestPatrol 120 KB
2 Status 0x0f0bf2db9ae8658220e832d9fcb5194f 9/16/2011 9:04:00 AM Unknown 8, 0, 0, 3 PestPatrol 252 KB
3 Status 0x09c25d9b0b0b3c44047c5912cb3413b1 8/21/2011 9:05:00 AM Unknown Unknown PestPatrol 132 KB
4 Status 0x552de618905fa02f143a89a7a403321a 7/15/2011 7:14:00 PM Unknown 5, 0, 1, 7 PestPatrol 128 KB
5 Status 0x65b75364997eb2b9b1ec104f96cd1591 2/13/2011 11:47:00 AM Unknown 5, 0, 0, 0 PestPatrol 104 KB
6 Status 0x8912a41789d412fe9dae3a3e3d308aa8 11/2/2010 2:39:00 PM Unknown 8, 0, 0, 1 PestPatrol 120 KB
7 Status 0xba5aebaca95dca1cf262e2b31f76d2aa 4/22/2010 2:16:00 AM Unknown Unknown PestPatrol 152 KB
8 Status 0xf92f86ffcbeb1a86d12d0f1c8b54fdca 2/15/2010 3:41:00 AM Unknown Unknown PestPatrol 120 KB
9 Status 0xedb0a4a32bdbe4ae3343678541910149 2/13/2010 4:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown PestPatrol 148 KB
10 Status 0x2c57444e91d58dc93fe22d29e9c2b6f7 1/30/2010 4:07:00 AM Unknown 5, 0, 1, 5 PestPatrol 120 KB
11 Status 0xce43ed2b9dfef66038f2de52f6002900 1/10/2010 3:13:00 PM Unknown 5, 0, 1, 5 PestPatrol 120 KB
12 Status 0x86d25b550cbe383262ffbce56ee0f069 5/7/2009 7:16:00 AM Unknown Unknown PestPatrol 124 KB
13 Status 0x02a9d230c137ba6165aec7f6cf16a559 12/31/2007 Unknown 5, 0, 1, 7 PestPatrol 128 KB


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