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What is sdwinsec.exe? SDWinSec?

Vendor:      Safer Networking
Product:     Spybot - Search & Destroy
Vendor Website:      http://www.safer-networking.org/en/home/index.html
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: SDWinSec.exe is a Spybot-S&D Security Center integration; integrates Spybot-S&D into WSC.

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


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sdwinsec.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: 0.06%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 8 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
sdwinsec.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x794d4b48dfb6e999537c7c3947863463 7/27/2015 6:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown SDWinSec 1126 KB
2 Status 0x55c1e4fdfd62a48fb5a2ce25f3aa8ae8 8/20/2011 10:38:00 PM Unknown Unknown SDWinSec 790 KB
3 Status 0xc4cb6fa165448681ee81b00819114704 3/6/2011 12:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown SDWinSec 790 KB
4 Status 0xe057e4b90b5e69e9bc0f779be27e5a54 3/27/2010 3:23:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 8 SDWinSec 586 KB


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