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What is avgfws8.exe? AVG Firewall?

Vendor:      AVG
Product:     AVG
Vendor Website:      http://www.grisoft.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: avgfws8.exe - Part of AVG Internet Security.

avgfws8.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


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avgfws8.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: 12 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
avgfws8.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xfbb8385153a03e63aeeb7e407c8a6805 10/2/2014 9:05:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1338 KB
2 Status 0x77069aa930150e9f1e365691b0400ceb 2/17/2011 11:44:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1334 KB
3 Status 0x18684daa05384e499a0f97cef54eef70 11/18/2010 1:39:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1336 KB
4 Status 0x1bb3a220c3616098e4bebd6865e8f433 10/10/2010 5:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1192 KB
5 Status 0x40768fffaf4614b0e5717c44ba05cb5a 10/9/2010 3:25:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1183 KB
6 Status 0x5c194d6cf348546f2aefc74d1b5e7d2a 8/5/2010 10:18:00 PM Unknown 8.0.0.80 AVG Firewall 908 KB
7 Status 0x9a66af295755c20b928fe5821870cc61 5/10/2010 11:21:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1308 KB
8 Status 0x8994605b94a3559a4ea3e0f9fc9c3900 5/4/2010 6:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1324 KB
9 Status 0x81c3e2c3a1ad9233336ef4add617d087 2/19/2010 11:20:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1190 KB
10 Status 0x8abeedd0c0e544522e7d18db88b15e06 1/10/2010 7:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1308 KB
11 Status 0x2076039f4ba3e77ee7e9c855d910b139 12/18/2009 3:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1330 KB
12 Status 0xade4008387ab674ca2aec0a03b665946 12/8/2009 3:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1336 KB
13 Status 0x55b93a46e166ece4313b479000a40562 8/30/2009 9:49:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1190 KB
14 Status 0xc4ec248f4506034ebe09c240d3d2c56f 5/30/2009 3:39:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1331 KB
15 Status 0xbca34c754fec426ccae8e5e9fada4e54 5/14/2009 4:35:00 PM Unknown 8.0.0.62 AVG Firewall 936 KB
16 Status 0x218a27ccf4fbe76d476826b55444fd13 4/8/2009 4:48:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1191 KB
17 Status 0x64b34a5db72ab23c1a5ed2f30fcdad9d 3/8/2009 5:22:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 569 KB
18 Status 0xf5fad7901a3fb1c546df52851615d412 2/18/2009 2:08:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1196 KB
19 Status 0x34402eec1f9e4e20ee48da5713b52688 1/3/2009 12:55:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1361 KB
20 Status 0xcb47068eb8fcf540d460843edd53ca1a 12/1/2008 9:56:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1357 KB
21 Status 0x7356092c0b8fa43e8fb1a7773086a0f0 9/21/2008 4:04:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Firewall 1195 KB


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