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What is mcvsshld.exe? McAfee VirusScan?

Vendor:      
Product:     VirusScan
Vendor Website:      http://www.mcafee.com/us/
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: mcvsshld.exe - Part of McAfee VirusScan, provides real-time virus scanning.

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


mcvsshld.exe is known to be a bad process. Learn more about protecting your PC from these bad processes with PC Matic.
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mcvsshld.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.03%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
mcvsshld.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xb154ac6dbd82f96476003e58e1625bd8 6/12/2015 8:40:00 PM Unknown 10, 0, 0, 22 McAfee VirusScan 160 KB
2 Status 0xc5ed9064a40a15576dd332ce02277537 2/1/2015 5:23:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
3 Status 0x3fe1e841ed8483f7a75a1e86f6fc2216 8/27/2014 7:18:00 PM Unknown 8, 0, 0, 15 McAfee VirusScan 160 KB
4 Status 0xfbf233e7b883cf00564409ba05812b21 8/14/2014 5:05:00 PM Unknown 9, 0, 0, 7 McAfee VirusScan 176 KB
5 Status 0x954ae4cbf9d03dae20eae00f66ac2a72 1/28/2012 1:01:00 AM Unknown 12,0,172,0 McAfee VirusScan 353 KB
6 Status 0xefa2bd8cb2ab24a52a2f8ab99a23defd 1/20/2012 10:13:00 PM Unknown 11,1,124,0 McAfee VirusScan 361 KB
7 Status 0x6f3748a510740950f83095c2654d8df1 1/20/2012 11:52:00 AM Unknown 11,2,121,0 McAfee VirusScan 361 KB
8 Status 0x856cfe5355a4506995058b6e571eebf2 7/30/2011 7:15:00 PM Unknown 4, 4, 0, 10 McAfee VirusScan 136 KB
9 Status 0x15e14e786ed0b5ecb2e3adf4b42eb531 7/23/2011 1:04:00 AM Unknown 4, 4, 0, 35 McAfee VirusScan 156 KB
10 Status 0x93b6f5f3e8d8193560c5bb9e86214fe8 6/11/2011 3:21:00 PM Unknown 4, 0, 0, 10 McAfee VirusScan 132 KB
11 Status 0x4ab04583be97030cf2e672e3f15c66b4 5/1/2011 11:55:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
12 Status 0xd8eb030c16c494d52563d5ce2cffd750 12/29/2010 3:48:00 AM Unknown 11,0,205,0 McAfee VirusScan 365 KB
13 Status 0x56baec9bbe68c118b170fc0765e38f48 11/29/2010 5:41:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
14 Status 0x944982c9b57c8bcc58f4001a62cd503f 11/7/2010 9:51:00 PM Unknown 9, 1, 0, 6 McAfee VirusScan 192 KB
15 Status 0xb0b4a4c5b96fca970aec01c9dc686e97 10/25/2010 4:02:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
16 Status 0x482844396b975978d01e521805e21ab7 10/10/2010 11:56:00 PM Unknown 10, 0, 0, 19 McAfee VirusScan 160 KB
17 Status 0x4525db4b915520331978bf26aebb33f3 6/5/2010 6:30:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
18 Status 0x07a742a8e3769e097029738d9adf924a 2/14/2010 12:16:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
19 Status 0xd2aec277855280fce5916950e6f62158 1/5/2010 11:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 255 KB
20 Status 0xd1a0be320260c76bbbff958a9edd817b 10/16/2009 8:39:00 AM Unknown 11,1,117,0 McAfee VirusScan 361 KB
21 Status 0xd3625a87256d9c0cf826eb1cfa8f51ea 10/13/2009 12:47:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 253 KB
22 Status 0xa3acfbf4bfc54cf5aaa252319b341172 8/18/2009 12:28:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 180 KB
23 Status 0x776fae712f21736dd1d9f3718b9fab72 6/5/2009 8:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 180 KB
24 Status 0x1ded57b70a6c5a9d3d5f2c3216dca8e3 5/26/2009 11:23:00 PM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 256 KB
25 Status 0x7364478e56d935b039b30abf0523813d 5/14/2009 12:19:00 AM Unknown Unknown McAfee VirusScan 180 KB


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