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What is mcshell.exe? mcshell.exe?

Vendor:      McAfee
Product:     McAfee SecurityCenter
Vendor Website:      http://us.mcafee.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: mcshell.exe - This process is associated with McAfee Security Center.

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


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mcshell.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: 4%
Average RAM for this program: 15 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
mcshell.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x688f32280517cfb7a9a24ebb4434c475 1/22/2012 11:52:00 AM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 901 KB
2 Status 0xebddd6eb319c4b817654a665751ebfa0 4/23/2011 5:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 1462 KB
3 Status 0xf28637981a174ba11a9e37914e3923b6 4/9/2011 10:18:00 AM Unknown 8,1,133,0 mcshell.exe 846 KB
4 Status 0x60f1fad0179b19f4360c7da338f1271b 3/20/2011 12:50:00 AM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 894 KB
5 Status 0xf29c010462c838d0221a8bc164c2f367 11/6/2010 3:33:00 AM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 901 KB
6 Status 0x39c9568225a4ce1eebb4bf80848210e7 10/11/2010 12:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 1462 KB
7 Status 0x81dea6f9f1c58f1b7a9a28aa26c0a17a 4/14/2010 6:01:00 AM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 901 KB
8 Status 0x749a0c24bdd6324cccc152e20f22ea35 2/8/2010 2:46:00 AM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 905 KB
9 Status 0xae7b2da3d0a4ecbbf4086875911ee88b 1/5/2010 11:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 894 KB
10 Status 0x82b127de61d66e465604d2829abe9f0c 9/22/2009 8:40:00 PM Unknown 8,0,226,0 mcshell.exe 834 KB
11 Status 0xf139373ea1ba2276e8ca8d5ef33f29f8 8/24/2009 11:59:00 AM Unknown 7,2,142,0 mcshell.exe 810 KB
12 Status 0x9571e8311a4a627bf9ad185e39c8f3a2 8/21/2009 11:17:00 PM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 891 KB
13 Status 0x6feef076c4d149e3c51c6c1292b3a1cd 3/13/2009 9:06:00 PM Unknown Unknown mcshell.exe 897 KB
14 Status 0x031d2e0ef6d863050769df7ac22901a4 2/16/2009 1:50:00 AM Unknown 7,0,317,0 mcshell.exe 800 KB


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