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What is lkads.exe? lkads.exe?

Vendor:      National Instruments Corporation
Product:     LKADS
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.
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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: lkads.exe -

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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: 6 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
lkads.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x78b0a5aa493995c7409b3168e8be3e90 5/2/2016 9:30:00 PM Unknown 4.7.1.8 lkads.exe 54 KB
2 Status 0xc3e0622e21b721ac955be6bcdbeaa7e5 2/22/2015 5:07:00 PM Unknown 4.7.0.44 lkads.exe 44 KB
3 Status 0x16a17d015c4576486ff39ee350035712 9/18/2011 11:53:00 PM Unknown 4.9.0f3 lkads.exe 39 KB
4 Status 0x405f1b0b939d362736a7f6583fb057c4 8/18/2011 1:38:00 AM Unknown 4.6.0.1046 lkads.exe 44 KB
5 Status 0x93cd77ef951e426a2c36a33d750d9321 5/4/2011 2:44:00 PM Unknown 4.6.0.1036 lkads.exe 44 KB
6 Status 0x74e1d8e690c25662df493a023a1a5419 2/10/2011 4:54:00 PM Unknown 4.5.1.534 lkads.exe 44 KB
7 Status 0xab3a1ae355bdb7b89cd62c17dbce9ad7 10/16/2010 7:07:00 AM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 44 KB
8 Status 0xe7602b8b7d777fe0dcb408cc2ae2e943 3/10/2010 8:10:00 PM Unknown 4.2.0.20 lkads.exe 24 KB
9 Status 0x836b51afa62d2c0ff52cfb72e7a87222 2/9/2010 1:33:00 PM Unknown 4.5.2.0 lkads.exe 44 KB
10 Status 0x51e96f61bf017f69a41c976e59c44482 11/30/2009 11:10:00 PM Unknown 4.4.0.0 lkads.exe 32 KB
11 Status 0x5654c7464413225e892725ebbbaf1ec8 11/23/2009 5:11:00 PM Unknown 4.5.1.601 lkads.exe 44 KB
12 Status 0xa6288136e708cfb9b36c24126b417f7b 9/17/2009 11:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 48 KB
13 Status 0x13df8241a8132082acfccd7918aaa941 8/10/2009 12:24:00 AM Unknown 4.5.0.195 lkads.exe 44 KB
14 Status 0xc8984280fdb0202cbdb80c29011d0ea4 5/10/2009 12:12:00 AM Unknown 4.5.1.593 lkads.exe 44 KB
15 Status 0x5173f05318448218c0ffc83d3dc23e6f 2/22/2009 11:40:00 PM Unknown 4.7.0.27 lkads.exe 44 KB
16 Status 0x9a99817b73826c572d249016f3266cb4 2/13/2009 1:58:00 PM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 24 KB
17 Status 0x3cb8ec3450a5e4d023b2a1f0aaf89291 12/9/2008 1:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 24 KB
18 Status 0xc14dea82fed9f86005286019bb95381b 10/3/2008 3:13:00 AM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 54 KB
19 Status 0xefbc349794aa320711a67efd7bea1d98 5/2/2008 12:09:00 AM Unknown Unknown lkads.exe 48 KB
20 Status 0x2c6cbf2902ce980d379b4df5edf86a32 12/31/2007 Unknown 4.9.0b2 lkads.exe 39 KB


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