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What is distnoted.exe? distnoted?

Vendor:      Apple Inc.
Product:     distnoted
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: Apple Mobile Device Helper. Task which springs up when you plug in an Apple device (iPod Touch, Apple TV, iPhone) and use it with iTunes. We are not yet sure as to the exact role of this task. although we do not yet know the exact role of this task, what we do know is that it will only spring up on the Tasks tab of TUT when you actually plug in one of the Apple devices mentioned above, in other words "it runs only when needed".

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


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distnoted.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: 0.44%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
distnoted.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x2c27e7ad6451a256cd7038a8ed207ee8 2/8/2012 4:37:00 AM Unknown Unknown distnoted 0 KB
2 Status 0xf23819fec9d0bbc5b4f1a0a6b53fd006 2/1/2012 4:06:00 AM Unknown Unknown distnoted 12 KB
3 Status 0x2bd8d92e3b6a152d1cae3e46214eca38 1/27/2012 11:47:00 PM Unknown Unknown distnoted 0 KB
4 Status 0x0933539e330edbdeb81277ae5f84e7df 1/23/2012 1:26:00 AM Unknown Unknown distnoted 12 KB
5 Status 0xb7eb7a62e60b7fcaf99e48b270afbb0f 1/15/2012 12:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown distnoted 0 KB


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