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What is pinger.exe? Toshiba Pinger?

Vendor:      Toshiba
Product:     Software Upgrades
Vendor Website:      http://www.toshiba.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.
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: pinger.exe - The pinger.exe process will check online to see if updates are available for your Toshiba notebook.

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


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pinger.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: 0.11%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
pinger.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x6dbf2ac2bdaff355995ab25eccc4cfe1 3/8/2017 6:47:00 AM Unknown Toshiba Pinger 133 KB
2 Status 0xfa8d59cd0b55a489a3cf237acf6f3d46 11/1/2015 5:05:00 PM Unknown 3.7.0.0 Toshiba Upgrade 148 KB
3 Status 0xeb3c8c07a1c1286baa3a676e1d16394d 8/15/2015 3:49:00 PM Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Upgrade 156 KB
4 Status 0xd15cff835910d271b28b8ba86bb88727 2/1/2012 3:02:00 AM Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Upgrade 144 KB
5 Status 0x2ed75d44e1bc39227500b9e3735aa4d5 1/18/2012 2:50:00 PM Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Upgrade 156 KB
6 Status 0xff0727ab2e7b019026d9034f643752b0 1/14/2012 5:19:00 PM Unknown 3.7.0.1 Toshiba Upgrade 148 KB
7 Status 0x5eccb0ab767501b1b44fe55f22ff5c57 1/10/2012 5:07:00 AM Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Upgrade 156 KB
8 Status 0xe12ddd3f91502e7c9514afc2df8130ef 7/15/2011 8:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 156 KB
9 Status 0x7573ceb70272e3ed2b36e839ccd64d9a 6/30/2011 11:25:00 AM Unknown 3.2 Toshiba Upgrade 140 KB
10 Status 0xc628f60ba9956bd6ce8f4d7bee8381b6 3/6/2011 4:42:00 PM Unknown 3.6.0.0 Toshiba Upgrade 144 KB
11 Status 0x2a07d799975aa9120b6fca55911e01a2 2/15/2011 10:16:00 PM Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Upgrade 156 KB
12 Status 0xa2cda2e2bf058411c80daaf43845380d 1/4/2010 3:39:00 AM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 873 KB
13 Status 0x5da4b2e6dc773c871c00be237a863898 11/19/2009 8:35:00 AM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 152 KB
14 Status 0x02b736d60d1f555165f8bf09defae1b3 7/13/2009 9:28:00 AM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 164 KB
15 Status 0xb35dc198a7fd9a66431e8f5e5644b3da 7/10/2009 3:10:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 156 KB
16 Status 0xca00c0abfaded25a319eed8cd2c43d8d 4/12/2009 4:02:00 AM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 168 KB
17 Status 0x164bfe9c302d3d4f7d22a8ba4f77a43a 4/7/2009 4:38:00 AM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 148 KB
18 Status 0xd932d42cf6733e44b3999687d62a789d 2/12/2009 4:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 148 KB
19 Status 0x02e33ea94a82ccb3173ee6b7a08d99f6 12/24/2008 12:56:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 329 KB
20 Status 0x5677d3a0d4908bdbc2e3334a2da28d22 10/24/2008 3:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 156 KB
21 Status 0xa04e17d3fc75764e769d4c4d51ec98e6 8/10/2008 7:32:00 PM Unknown 3.0 Toshiba Upgrade 140 KB
22 Status 0x18718a0b41458a98010cbd5337ee98f6 5/25/2008 12:15:00 AM Unknown 2.1.0.0 Toshiba Upgrade 140 KB
23 Status 0x362396d70bfbc3d2b605392c96bc4499 4/19/2008 10:24:00 PM Unknown Unknown Toshiba Pinger 168 KB
24 Status 0xd205f93cf9f80c92904c8b05d6674e10 12/31/2007 Unknown 3.7.0.0 Toshiba Upgrade 476 KB
25 Status 0x0c823768053713cba7cc1befcdac7ec2 12/31/2007 Unknown 3.3 Toshiba Pinger 496 KB


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