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What is gstart.exe? gStart.exe?

Vendor:      GARMIN
Product:     gStart
Vendor Website:      http://www.garmin.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.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: gStart.exe - Garmin's GPS application

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


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gstart.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: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
gstart.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x4b4f81c294b9a07479f4f4f8ff20e58c 4/12/2021 12:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown gStart.exe 1847 KB
2 Status 0x64f3a38460e5e4d63de2fbb5aa027b9b 4/4/2016 1:53:00 AM Unknown 2.3.0 gStart.exe 1847 KB
3 Status 0xdeb4e7dbf93983c2dfa0496f164dd6d1 1/17/2012 4:12:00 AM Unknown 2.2.0 gStart.exe 1852 KB
4 Status 0xf2907a2562bd94743d920d85e794b186 9/5/2011 4:26:00 PM Unknown 2.1.0 gStart.exe 1852 KB
5 Status 0xe66146ad8559080273771a6aefaf707e 6/16/2009 10:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown gStart.exe 1844 KB
6 Status 0xad966107d4f79c39dea46874d1962e64 8/2/2008 9:52:00 AM Unknown Unknown gStart.exe 1923 KB


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