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What is pds.exe? Ping Discovery Service?

Vendor:      
Product:     Intel Common Base Agent
Vendor Website:      http://www.intel.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: pds.exe - Intel Ping Discovery Service (PDS) is part of Intel's LANDesk Management Suite 6 and the Common Base Agent (CBA) which are used for communicating between the core server and managed clients.

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


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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: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
pds.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x483e036fc940114b9d8828a69e4f83d7 8/12/2015 2:04:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.148 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
2 Status 0xae97c986f9c1bb5421c20e6766f358fe 11/17/2014 5:57:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.144 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
3 Status 0x7c234b88f1f1e5ffaf5a701148c095e8 2/7/2012 10:47:00 AM Unknown Unknown Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
4 Status 0x4014678c95be7cdcaefb2114f6e3f54f 9/18/2011 1:18:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.125 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
5 Status 0x2b134ae81d610640a235f88e973c82e1 9/13/2011 11:19:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.142 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
6 Status 0x117b5550a244c88b1c154bc10691b352 8/22/2011 8:55:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.142 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
7 Status 0x7948421fdc507ee308d1e7357abcdad5 8/17/2011 5:50:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.142 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
8 Status 0x8a0c5a52ce7b8129d6fa8f8ed555aefc 7/30/2011 6:15:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.112 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
9 Status 0x3fe8bfebfdca17314ebe4ad546977372 7/20/2011 6:41:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.148 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
10 Status 0xd63aa5f0fc4ce69c65a6cb4ac3d2126f 7/18/2011 3:34:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.142 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
11 Status 0x03c6295ef4e90f472671be1c7e960657 6/12/2011 4:15:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.126 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
12 Status 0x68601a6c982d01e1f15c001519bcae84 6/6/2011 9:49:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.130 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
13 Status 0xaf222b601e4d21ee8d69439de01bba1c 4/27/2011 6:54:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.142 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
14 Status 0x8dbf6df5fbe64cf68afeaada6a119416 3/28/2011 6:27:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.140 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
15 Status 0x3c7b9b3e5b0270f301ed072dc3dff339 3/13/2011 5:31:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.109 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
16 Status 0x2aa8da28c3d9715b87d8c4b13b553215 2/20/2011 7:39:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.105 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
17 Status 0x5bdcd75ac948dade8c746463247766b0 2/11/2011 12:47:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.147 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
18 Status 0xcf2e19b1249acdc229e3752e032ca5ed 1/5/2011 1:24:00 AM Unknown 6.0.201.0520 E Ping Discovery Service 17 KB
19 Status 0x307ed61fbfca68daaf1344f7a59446a2 12/26/2010 1:13:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.71 E Ping Discovery Service 24 KB
20 Status 0xa07ec4ed2f4e50484120f8f74ae7cfae 9/25/2010 3:56:00 PM Unknown Unknown Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
21 Status 0x10cc04516e61c71643c29081a1a6a311 9/13/2010 8:04:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.140 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
22 Status 0x3cba48fd3ff554618202b10e3ceb71da 9/6/2010 11:10:00 PM Unknown 6.0.201.0940 E Ping Discovery Service 18 KB
23 Status 0xb2602e5986ba079e328f70611a5c7766 6/16/2010 3:37:00 AM Unknown 6.12.0.130 E Ping Discovery Service 32 KB
24 Status 0x112b0d7a0b95596da30d80638cea4146 6/11/2010 9:37:00 PM Unknown 6.12.0.130 E Ping Discovery Service 37 KB
25 Status 0x6e7c4a2ba3ca2eb5cf5edb27efd2146d 5/20/2010 10:09:00 PM Unknown Unknown Ping Discovery Service 37 KB


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