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What is s3hotkey.exe? S3Hotkey?

Vendor:      S3 Graphics
Product:     S3 Graphics, Inc. S3Hotkey
Vendor Website:      http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.jsp
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: S3hotkey.exe - S3 Twister tray icon for switching between monitors.

s3hotkey.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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s3hotkey.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: 0.04%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
s3hotkey.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x647872dd7eceda854f0963c7f01b5555 2/6/2012 4:54:00 AM Unknown 1.0.0.5 S3Hotkey 40 KB
2 Status 0xa69063b45af2fcf695950fa835bad164 2/5/2012 11:57:00 PM Unknown 1.0.0.7 S3Hotkey 40 KB
3 Status 0x8e97df6ccdba484594b03a564f178b74 1/28/2012 10:43:00 PM Unknown 1.0.0.8 S3Hotkey 156 KB
4 Status 0x148cbb669340a2f96f7cc480101729a8 3/14/2011 6:40:00 PM Unknown 1.0.0.8 S3Hotkey 30 KB
5 Status 0x3edfc686b5bd39b277a148f54b6195ed 9/6/2010 2:00:00 PM Unknown 1.0.0.4 S3Hotkey 40 KB
6 Status 0xfed0ce9f367d1be1673e3b626f671e2d 11/10/2009 4:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown S3Hotkey 32 KB
7 Status 0x7042ab01f4ee675c277a3b31bb972992 6/3/2009 4:43:00 AM Unknown 1.0.0.3 S3Hotkey 30 KB
8 Status 0x97ea2289602a677579f6478ef6f8dcf5 7/21/2008 4:23:00 PM Unknown Unknown S3Hotkey 160 KB
9 Status 0xdabb63751f5c984b2c2d9489f5c98278 4/23/2008 6:48:00 PM Unknown 1.0.0.1 S3Hotkey 18 KB


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