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What is startfx.exe? startfx.exe?

Vendor:      Creative Technology
Product:     
Vendor Website:      http://www.creative.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: StartFX.exe - This process is associated wtih the Creative Technology Live Cam VideoFX.

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


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startfx.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: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
startfx.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xbe1e886c9079db6bcfa9d17c7f41e131 11/16/2017 11:01:00 AM Unknown 1.12.02.00 startfx.exe 24 KB
2 Status 0x28a19e2d50cbccff375720fb14961a26 10/27/2017 1:50:00 PM Unknown 2.12.01.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
3 Status 0x5935ade19598a39e97ce71833744cbd1 1/11/2017 6:25:00 PM Unknown 1.11.02.00 startfx.exe 24 KB
4 Status 0xc6f190f57810d823fd55af9b5b906add 9/25/2015 3:12:00 PM Unknown 1.80.05.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
5 Status 0x61375684d3fe03934cfe6d4e993be745 10/27/2014 1:29:00 AM Unknown 1.80.04.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
6 Status 0xaa7a0b4d8cd6ebea5f19c2296b628b22 1/29/2012 4:06:00 AM Unknown 2.01.02.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
7 Status 0xac7e347397c3f8faa090c4405612186f 9/17/2011 5:34:00 AM Unknown 2.20.03.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
8 Status 0x90dd1d0fb38c695e6b6b30e1eeef30e2 7/30/2011 7:40:00 PM Unknown 2.01.04.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
9 Status 0x672aa8b3eda8455a8319c439fb38cbe5 12/1/2010 10:25:00 PM Unknown 2.11.02.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
10 Status 0x7ebc44a90279406e73e462d39bca8eb7 11/4/2010 2:18:00 PM Unknown 2.10.01.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
11 Status 0x512f580277fe4edda7e39c72a867ad52 3/23/2010 2:58:00 AM Unknown 2.00.03.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
12 Status 0xf85112ec7553c61b7d2091e81a7904d1 7/16/2009 5:16:00 AM Unknown 2.01.01.00 startfx.exe 20 KB
13 Status 0xac4b9e8de275a54e4cc4b8d4229a0f83 4/3/2009 5:29:00 PM Unknown Unknown startfx.exe 24 KB


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