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What is wdsvc.exe? Retrospect?

Vendor:      Dantz
Product:     Retrospect
Vendor Website:      http://www.dantz.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: wdsvc.exe - Dantz backup/restoration software often bundled with Western Digital external drives. If you are not using this, it should be disabled.

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


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wdsvc.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: 4 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
wdsvc.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x6f5386267113fe4e0f87a882de48c577 4/27/2015 11:19:00 PM Unknown 6.5.342 Retrospect 45 KB
2 Status 0xc6f0dd30f61cbe7a55052194e2c46bb8 9/7/2010 2:43:00 AM Unknown 6.5.342 Retrospect 45 KB
3 Status 0xd77fc603d5af8b92b29a6f0907bf4131 9/23/2009 9:00:00 PM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 45 KB
4 Status 0x15bc848b5679bf9a479f9152e2caee0f 9/17/2009 2:51:00 AM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 45 KB
5 Status 0x0b9e8b4ab54d05605c2aff3b491061f2 9/9/2009 10:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 45 KB
6 Status 0x90a64bf1c7fd2d92143207fa737314a9 8/2/2009 1:59:00 AM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 65 KB
7 Status 0x756b50ae677a32f3bad8f242234e73dd 12/1/2008 10:16:00 PM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 47 KB
8 Status 0x02a3c7c23ba47e8e7281cc07a0ef351e 11/15/2008 9:04:00 AM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 45 KB
9 Status 0xc509267793e7a627a822bbcc099f3020 7/21/2008 11:50:00 PM Unknown Unknown Retrospect 45 KB


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