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What is shotkey.exe? Chicony HOTKEY Driver?

Vendor:      Chicony
Product:     Chicony HOTKEY Driver for WinXP MCE
Vendor Website:      http://www.chicony.com.tw/
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: shotkey.exe is the special key driver for Chicony Keyboards. Disabling will cause loss of use of programmable keys.

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


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shotkey.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: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 0 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
shotkey.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0xf5554e32fba1bbe1b6437bf4f79d537c 8/29/2015 1:46:00 AM Unknown 1. 0. 0. 08220 Chicony HOTKEY Driver 44 KB
2 Status 0x72c1c4c573392f7b2d8a2458bcd55c75 8/26/2010 10:00:00 PM Unknown 1. 0. 1. 07070 Chicony HOTKEY Driver 44 KB
3 Status 0x90aae9f12844bb47219e1c2436e4ab44 12/31/2007 Unknown 1. 0. 0. 08220 Chicony HOTKEY Driver 377 KB
4 Status 0x420ac7706cf9fe259e248b8b6613ace6 12/31/2007 Unknown 1. 1. 0. 03050 Chicony HOTKEY Driver 44 KB


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