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What is virtualexpander.exe? Micro Vault Virtual Expander?

Vendor:      Sony Corporation
Product:     Micro Vault Virtual Expander
Vendor Website:      http://www.sony.net/Products/Media/Microvault/usm-ep.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.
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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: VirtualExpander.exe -

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


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virtualexpander.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: 0.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 8 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
virtualexpander.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x187f2b4b37bc238974f17cac956c0731 1/24/2012 9:16:00 PM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 719 KB
2 Status 0x8d62e6bec5f575813d3830c2cde4737c 1/18/2012 7:11:00 AM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 621 KB
3 Status 0x379be7fa5591252c55aba07d43c76307 8/19/2011 6:40:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 3, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 424 KB
4 Status 0xa8d5cc3a5bbc133406074f8b6bfeafe3 8/11/2011 4:01:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 2, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 424 KB
5 Status 0xc67fa4e2dde3e269856a6d2dfc79a98b 6/15/2011 2:06:00 PM Unknown 2, 1, 0, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 463 KB
6 Status 0x51195d84bf061dc0902b1675a47a8c31 1/4/2011 8:31:00 PM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 420 KB
7 Status 0x7c6bb11a2458f30d43520eabdd2dfa03 9/18/2009 4:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 525 KB
8 Status 0xb3181ece7805daa9cff5021714bc4fb0 8/28/2009 2:44:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 1, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 424 KB
9 Status 0x3f263ae449f8f9941297868959edc7fe 7/26/2008 11:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 516 KB
10 Status 0x6a5e8fa7c32e5e0ad024097336b44a98 6/26/2008 2:48:00 AM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 505 KB
11 Status 0xe7a65e2f20d3eb6d35b5d3bc511693a6 5/14/2008 6:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown Micro Vault Virtual Expander 475 KB
12 Status 0x1bafd91b7534c446ff8a78fd78363eca 12/31/2007 Unknown 2, 1, 0, 0 Micro Vault Virtual Expander 463 KB


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