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What is protectionutilsurrogate.exe? Symantic AntiVirus?

Vendor:      Symantec
Product:     Symantec AntiVirus
Vendor Website:      http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp
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: ProtectionUtilSurrogate.exe is part of Symantec AntiVirus developed by Symantec Corporation. This task protect your system against viruses

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


protectionutilsurrogate.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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protectionutilsurrogate.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: 14 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
protectionutilsurrogate.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x4cc38227fe6086678720af8fbd764b6e 4/28/2017 2:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
2 Status 0xb915c68b27bd4db3b951433f36affe89 2/25/2015 2:38:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
3 Status 0x4967b25df847a992b7c0b4bf01d52aea 2/3/2015 3:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
4 Status 0x787e0404cb26116f8cc46e3219558030 1/2/2015 7:01:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
5 Status 0x3ad522e08b05265efb07e6b166a40c14 10/1/2014 6:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
6 Status 0x6489b654213e0d5b332dfbac9f82142e 8/11/2014 8:35:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
7 Status 0x675c0eab57bbdda148317b9bc41ea2cb 9/16/2013 9:18:00 AM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
8 Status 0xdacc93df8d9af4734ecb997f43f631e5 1/8/2012 6:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
9 Status 0x03de7519201eac19e55633badceba330 9/9/2011 2:41:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
10 Status 0x72480a432c836c15d42dcc0e01e2ba44 7/18/2011 11:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB
11 Status 0x81225ea007ee49e423a8ce8d1ec39247 6/16/2011 6:51:00 PM Unknown 11.0.1000.1112 Symantic AntiVirus 49 KB


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