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More than one possible match was found; all matches are listed below in order of their prevalence. This only tells you what the file and the correct action might be.

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Match #1



acevents.exe (ActivCard/ActivIdentity Events)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.14%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 7 MB


In addition to the file name, acevents.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:ActivIdentity
Product contains:ActivClient
File name contains:\ActivClient

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.


Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://www.actividentity.com/



Win Patrol

acevents.exe - ActivCard / ActivIdentity
Belongs to ActivIdentity software
ActivIdentity® solutions include Smart Employee ID, Enterprise Single Sign On, Strong Authentication, Secure Information and Transactions, and Smart Citizen ID. ActivIdentity products include SecureLogin® SSO, ActivClient™ smart card middleware, ActivID™ Card Management System, 4TRESS™ AAA Server, one-time password (OTP) tokens, and ActivKey™ USB tokens.

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

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.


MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called acevents.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

Program Name MD5 Count
acevents.exe> 10
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
1 0xa43d0df537598655152d695b8efb46d2 62464 bytes
2 0xf511426d5789ec348cffdd9ae7d4491a 60416 bytes
3 0x74f21de8f88348c81203629aa68194b8 86016 bytes
4 0x36461c1a49fdfc5691c4cb5ae8f14ff2 81920 bytes
5 0x6b4209e1129e3fb4825aa9c7072e397f 62464 bytes
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
6 0xfecb438f7abea262c9633616cbd8cfdf 95024 bytes
7 0x4245c2866af20d3cdbd5590f965972c4 94000 bytes
8 0x84e3a1046596d7bf2d002892faa985de 93736 bytes
9 0x58c322a1c497b30a940a8039b7f6ebfa 141864 bytes
10 0x904403733b2c678633808e89d5304e20 142888 bytes

Match #2



acevents.exe (acevents.exe)

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


In addition to the file name, acevents.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:ActivIdentity
Product contains:ActivClient Services
File name contains:\Program Files\ActivIdentity\ActivClient\acevents.exe

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.




Win Patrol

acevents.exe -

acevents.exe  is returning insufficient information about this program.

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.



Match #3



acevents.exe (ActivCard/ActivIdentity Events)

This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.


In addition to the file name, acevents.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:ActivCard Corp.
Product contains:ActivCard ActivClient
File name contains:\ActivCard\ActivClient\

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.


Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://www.actividentity.com/



Win Patrol

acevents.exe - ActivCard / ActivIdentity
Belongs to ActivIdentity software
ActivIdentity® solutions include Smart Employee ID, Enterprise Single Sign On, Strong Authentication, Secure Information and Transactions, and Smart Citizen ID. ActivIdentity products include SecureLogin® SSO, ActivClient™ smart card middleware, ActivID™ Card Management System, 4TRESS™ AAA Server, one-time password (OTP) tokens, and ActivKey™ USB tokens.

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

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.


MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called acevents.exe, we have detected 4 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

Program Name MD5 Count
acevents.exe4
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
1 0x6d050c660b4d01b1d7db87b0f88b89dd 110592 bytes
2 0xb6fe82447d63d49b1bac7964015e8854 114688 bytes
MD5 Hashes
# MD5 Size
3 0x3babf92bcf27ea234c0e7f253ad70c5a 118784 bytes
4 0xc410cc737478953f17eece738a35a0d7 86016 bytes


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Important Note

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