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What is tfservice.exe? ThreatFire Service?

Vendor:      PC Tools
Product:     ThreatFire
Vendor Website:      http://www.threatfire.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.
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: TFService.exe is commonly known as "ThreatFire" an application designed to protect your computer against malware such as trojans, spyware, rootkits, keyloggers, and buffer overflows by intelligently detecting and blocking behavior consistent with that of malware.
This APP doesn't catch the EICAR (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eicar_test_file).

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


tfservice.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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tfservice.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: 0.21%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
tfservice.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x895a08f39617485f13796263990c8ba5 10/30/2020 4:51:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
2 Status 0x2a5578a33baf46afef748ace0f973ae7 9/23/2014 9:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
3 Status 0xd126b55e0c9eeed748cd2f0a2d208f48 2/1/2013 7:14:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 71 KB
4 Status 0x153d6a3eafa45eceff2640449c330b3f 2/7/2012 2:17:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
5 Status 0x0b55f5491c9317aea53b523527d6dcae 1/28/2012 9:56:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
6 Status 0x4a8a02e0a1b0663bce71df864e35c28c 1/22/2012 8:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
7 Status 0x0964ca3222a50341b855c70425c2b1bf 1/21/2012 11:30:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
8 Status 0xbcc0e4fc3fc4e7a91b30bfe531c887c8 9/17/2011 3:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
9 Status 0x09c35dd057914897b1986cfdb4934f89 9/14/2011 4:29:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
10 Status 0x8f80c5a06e20246a47e2138d2bafce69 9/11/2011 12:10:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
11 Status 0xc50d2589ab2a6beb3db058f20b0b5222 8/24/2011 3:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
12 Status 0x9191a964d4e08346d62fd5a8279f62fd 8/20/2011 1:18:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 65 KB
13 Status 0x06f6cd183c64fb5644632d327033ff56 8/19/2011 9:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
14 Status 0xf25e880e8b2f09110e980f7d6fe893a2 7/22/2011 11:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
15 Status 0x316d49d57ee202a3d5dbe146cf0bb339 7/16/2011 4:14:00 PM Unknown 3.8.2.15 ThreatFire Service 65 KB
16 Status 0x5f146e266773958e1468071635ef7cd1 5/24/2011 2:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
17 Status 0x4c85c38e5d2e9831360bfd8f31a368e7 4/30/2011 10:58:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
18 Status 0x958580fa3392718e47766050dbc8eed4 4/4/2011 1:56:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
19 Status 0xff7b11f412d26b83fba5c0927483c7c1 3/30/2011 9:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 65 KB
20 Status 0x09a3882d871fb786f719867621ee0d9a 2/17/2011 4:48:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
21 Status 0xd0a6ad658404149f1fb66cf4a834d05f 1/15/2011 4:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
22 Status 0x149b292c829c238eb252c359d8e93362 12/8/2010 4:11:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
23 Status 0xaa19db48428f34c6867d3a1b6a84b8c7 9/5/2010 10:18:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
24 Status 0xe523049da5b8fa908657281919503834 2/12/2010 6:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB
25 Status 0x783af8d5a51e5ce546396527234024fd 12/12/2009 7:37:00 AM Unknown Unknown ThreatFire Service 69 KB


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