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What is avgfws9.exe? AVG Internet Security?

Vendor:      AVG Technologies
Product:     AVG Internet Security
Vendor Website:      http://www.avg.com/us-en/homepage
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: avgfws9.exe is a component of the AVG Internet Security and is required to protect your system against malware threats.

avgfws9.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


avgfws9.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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avgfws9.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.06%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 9 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
avgfws9.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x0f38e92d794df187ba060939c552484f 2/8/2012 3:14:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2276 KB
2 Status 0x4450a89c091eee0972ce62767e655963 2/5/2012 9:53:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2276 KB
3 Status 0xf3148c93bc8db77dce4118c1090951ad 1/12/2012 7:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2250 KB
4 Status 0xc3366b2c624bf1a9ee1c3a23892c016f 1/9/2012 5:30:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2276 KB
5 Status 0xe08804baead7c53fc8496f026aabffba 8/19/2011 5:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2271 KB
6 Status 0x09154953f2f759151d2e6d3298782771 8/8/2011 11:20:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2276 KB
7 Status 0x86ccfba5cec051dc37e2eb0e8c0d13fe 5/9/2011 8:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2266 KB
8 Status 0xc71cda4feb95019555c76815537900f8 3/17/2011 10:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2276 KB
9 Status 0x73410a82519fe5d15320e376d2fc1440 1/30/2011 6:02:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2250 KB
10 Status 0x699b7e343824326ce161efa83051b601 10/19/2010 12:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Internet Security 2253 KB


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