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What is histkill.exe? HistoryKill?

Vendor:      
Product:     HistoryKill
Vendor Website:      http://www.trustsoft.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: histkill.exe - Removes your URL drop-list history, detailed history file, cache, cand cookies. Associated with TrustSoft DBA SwankSoft Technologies.

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


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histkill.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: 10 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
histkill.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x5b51f92076f1bda34e14657b1b9fa51e 9/29/2013 11:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 1808 KB
2 Status 0xd1b59b896bdbbe0d3819c721fefa7065 2/4/2012 7:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 326 KB
3 Status 0xa1e334665c5eba533a7af54b64dd93c9 2/2/2012 11:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 1637 KB
4 Status 0x34aff45a297f798d5e4cf7098850bb44 9/8/2011 11:56:00 PM Unknown 2003.01.0003 HistoryKill 251 KB
5 Status 0x08af7eb399738007730f238d67602ab0 6/29/2011 9:00:00 AM Unknown 2006.01.0007 HistoryKill 290 KB
6 Status 0xcb8f44df47035e24c5b9c0bf369f065a 4/23/2011 6:32:00 AM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 365 KB
7 Status 0xef60d8cbc6df01a9f48b01a9c8512c0c 11/6/2010 1:04:00 AM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 1521 KB
8 Status 0x45fed94a04bfbab6640816ac1ff8e4e7 8/22/2010 8:50:00 PM Unknown 2007.01 HistoryKill 295 KB
9 Status 0xd5dc1bef1e18b3ec70458468b434cfce 5/31/2010 2:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 1629 KB
10 Status 0xfb3ece5958b77312c62e5c1db4117db3 4/20/2010 6:09:00 AM Unknown 2005.01.0094 HistoryKill 292 KB
11 Status 0x4d30b0b65770dbc5c7104ec8d2631664 4/2/2010 11:27:00 AM Unknown 2003.01.0003 HistoryKill 240 KB
12 Status 0x374584ca851fdc14f8de056cf918acd3 3/20/2010 7:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 249 KB
13 Status 0xc87009ac78134148376d801fb16fc03a 3/14/2010 2:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 239 KB
14 Status 0x9f0a95a55cb611cbd72d12542afa7da8 3/12/2010 4:21:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 239 KB
15 Status 0x672bc6833dfdfe0006df1b0210c14551 2/27/2010 2:17:00 AM Unknown 2003.01.0003 HistoryKill 249 KB
16 Status 0x4770439513b9b850c74b1d22d792bd6f 1/18/2010 2:28:00 AM Unknown 2005.01.0006 HistoryKill 246 KB
17 Status 0x0ca4b1c851d2707d25061a13dc2748e5 1/4/2010 8:41:00 PM Unknown 2005.01.0117 HistoryKill 297 KB
18 Status 0xbeabe2ecc79fcde20498a7361c00fc24 9/20/2009 9:57:00 PM Unknown 2005.01.0128 HistoryKill 298 KB
19 Status 0x5caad4ead028f156a3eeeb41580fb924 8/10/2009 9:10:00 PM Unknown 2005.01.0087 HistoryKill 292 KB
20 Status 0x156abce4b20a22a8ea217ce2987ec78a 7/23/2009 4:49:00 AM Unknown 2002.00.0002 HistoryKill 207 KB
21 Status 0x2c752547b223149b48c77a07790ac9ff 6/18/2009 12:26:00 AM Unknown 2005.01.0015 HistoryKill 247 KB
22 Status 0x2e54851653d9d768e29566e12463249d 6/2/2009 9:54:00 AM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 243 KB
23 Status 0x8482746e8261cd66eea5cce8679b2b8a 5/7/2009 7:48:00 PM Unknown 2006.01.0007 HistoryKill 289 KB
24 Status 0x084f43e6bd11dd32f2655e28725df718 12/5/2008 11:32:00 PM Unknown Unknown HistoryKill 325 KB
25 Status 0x28e14d32fbea359e9f48ef5a837c4a1b 11/22/2008 12:58:00 PM Unknown 2002.00.0001 HistoryKill 206 KB


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