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What is answers.exe? 1-Click Answers?

Vendor:      
Product:     Answers
Vendor Website:      http://www.answers.com/main/product_info.jsp
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: answers.exe - From the Answers.com product description: "Alt-Click on any word in any program on your screen for instant, accurate facts."

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


answers.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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answers.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: 0.01%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
answers.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xb4c9d832f9cb8eca57b740b28a47ded0 8/8/2015 4:17:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 788 KB
2 Status 0x780c75a7743689e9a7c5857dede2f311 7/7/2011 9:50:00 PM Unknown 2.0 (build 458) 1-Click Answers 756 KB
3 Status 0x82c873e6b998a76bf45c77a05d7fabe3 1/11/2011 6:48:00 PM Unknown 1.0 (build 171) 1-Click Answers 612 KB
4 Status 0x699cf1eaa496effb0ded52f4a7759564 12/11/2010 6:24:00 PM Unknown 2.3 (build 624) 1-Click Answers 784 KB
5 Status 0x48784e4217b60d92dd8973774fd921a0 10/30/2010 4:05:00 PM Unknown 2.1 (build 521) 1-Click Answers 772 KB
6 Status 0xe45b318af2af554939ff4b1c144ec207 9/25/2010 11:56:00 PM Unknown 1.1 (build 381) 1-Click Answers 624 KB
7 Status 0x36463d99fddec0e7a3e6f4bbd15cf19d 8/29/2010 3:24:00 AM Unknown 2.3 (build 609) 1-Click Answers 780 KB
8 Status 0xa34f9a353c3fcdb3c2e1e8e879d5ad41 3/18/2010 12:09:00 AM Unknown 1.0 (build 178) 1-Click Answers 612 KB
9 Status 0xe580868213aedb252c3749506e944320 3/5/2010 5:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 696 KB
10 Status 0x84db3dccd0213585bf7328b060aafa54 11/16/2009 7:15:00 PM Unknown 1.0 (build 207) 1-Click Answers 616 KB
11 Status 0xbce9efc2d022c7424683603dfe1491ce 9/18/2009 7:58:00 PM Unknown 2.0 (build 453) 1-Click Answers 756 KB
12 Status 0xe6c6db88c13f427dd33125b978dda199 9/5/2009 1:54:00 AM Unknown 1.1 (build 377) 1-Click Answers 632 KB
13 Status 0xef4b3478ff62a399b7b94714ad0c0187 8/26/2009 12:52:00 PM Unknown 2.1 (build 502) 1-Click Answers 756 KB
14 Status 0xcc6d0de268f155b56e11eea73f8ce5e9 7/17/2009 1:05:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 612 KB
15 Status 0xc9191945b7272a3c1c2c544267928153 3/21/2009 8:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 696 KB
16 Status 0xa06fe5e10d37618cf8b63591ca25e880 2/6/2009 1:38:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 608 KB
17 Status 0xc127ac3b87a735923a2bf142b644380b 1/20/2009 6:22:00 PM Unknown 1.0 (build 128) 1-Click Answers 612 KB
18 Status 0x96d31fd0aa1b98d59a0c9ca149fad360 11/13/2008 9:08:00 PM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 612 KB
19 Status 0x2418b9b92c8a8e4dce5cb78c13745f1c 10/15/2008 11:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown 1-Click Answers 624 KB
20 Status 0xaa5535793b62e326a3f8e63492cd5fee 6/29/2008 11:15:00 PM Unknown 1.0 (build 84) 1-Click Answers 604 KB


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