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What is applicationupdater.exe? ApplicationUpdater?

Vendor:      Spigot, Inc.
Product:     Application Updater
Vendor Website:     
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: The Spigot Application Updater is an application which is part of the Spigot Toolbar. Applicationupdater.exe's purpose is to check periodically that the toolbar is the most up to date version. It's easy to uninstall Spigot Inc Application Updater at any time. Since the application is part of the toolbar, you must uninstall the Spigot toolbar and that will remove all tracks of spigot applicationupdater.exe

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


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applicationupdater.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: 0.38%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
applicationupdater.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xa1a43c2efcd9d9a73a87880640afd5d1 2/27/2017 2:38:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 1327 KB
2 Status 0xba7b3f5ddca776791d2076c95987385e 1/6/2017 2:49:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 1429 KB
3 Status 0x7916ee686b26fc01a56808f2fb1a22dd 6/16/2016 8:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 905 KB
4 Status 0x2c349460e40ef6b9604d774aaf367730 11/9/2015 1:32:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 775 KB
5 Status 0x800dfe09928eb7debe74998a3dcf9782 7/12/2015 1:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 905 KB
6 Status 0x2169af1679e7eac4c83f36ec24b9dad1 4/29/2015 3:12:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 793 KB
7 Status 0xa79b1b355f948630632a1f585edd02fd 4/23/2015 12:16:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
8 Status 0x1884388f469a41ee62ea1b8bbdf22b61 2/18/2015 9:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 793 KB
9 Status 0x40e7e27ebe1c43ae64285493e8e77487 12/15/2014 3:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 967 KB
10 Status 0x63894412e8e8a65ce20c18d620b06a0e 10/30/2014 3:25:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 967 KB
11 Status 0x54f7d01ed80ae0d2c0863879fa3c5fe9 10/19/2014 6:03:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 967 KB
12 Status 0x7bb4ba8f5be239714ed2bcd5a8b7a1e3 10/14/2014 6:19:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 967 KB
13 Status 0xc2b34b8d4593a4806c7b207931fd06c8 10/6/2014 9:10:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
14 Status 0x497ec768863c3743a84c08efddc1a73b 9/23/2014 5:44:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 966 KB
15 Status 0x3f602c37dcc6c8e7c338a326aa582fe2 8/24/2014 4:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
16 Status 0x7da6b2057037e7d680215aac8671f9e4 8/23/2014 9:31:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 792 KB
17 Status 0x718bee421cb137176b6f3f67e6f36132 8/7/2014 4:44:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
18 Status 0xa1f105cb15118f3d4aef799da40c08f9 8/4/2014 9:14:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 0 KB
19 Status 0xbe5b223e8aafdfd3ec16986a31f65e31 7/27/2014 10:31:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
20 Status 0xac33cfdf7593e095d1ad039e4a803ae9 6/24/2014 4:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
21 Status 0xca6819eb0df239d17015eee9afb0b53d 5/17/2014 6:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
22 Status 0xe990b1f74b84f6387e3f4b897cb345a7 3/19/2014 9:39:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
23 Status 0x61833d5fc1498a3e6f225ea11bdd81c7 2/19/2014 5:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
24 Status 0x6680b130ed9050151011436e24881d9f 2/16/2014 9:51:00 AM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB
25 Status 0x0e5b22de32c7b388d254dd040e6630d3 1/17/2014 12:39:00 PM Unknown Unknown ApplicationUpdater 788 KB


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