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What is ati2evxx.exe? ATI Hotkey Utility?

Vendor:      ATI Technologies
Product:     ATI External Event Utility
Vendor Website:     
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: Ati2evxx.exe is part of the ATI video drivers, handles hotkey sequences that are not well documented so nobody ever uses them.
It's also the tray icon in the task bar, witch can be also accessible using Control Painel
We recommend you disable this program via MSCONFIG.

ati2evxx.exe uses excessive system and memory resources with no corresponding benefit. Applications such as these should be disabled to improve overall system performance.


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ati2evxx.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: 7.56%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
ati2evxx.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x471087b5e1e01cc82604e81ea14781d8 1/4/2023 10:29:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 588 KB
2 Status 0xabc57a6f6070baf9786c318f59f29f0b 9/13/2021 3:13:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4118 ATI Hotkey Utility 372 KB
3 Status 0xb779bdc602d43fa6dc93baab1fac0483 8/8/2021 1:40:00 AM Unknown 6.14.10.4129 ATI Hotkey Utility 396 KB
4 Status 0x79ac386b310189ce66455e45ba68ab97 7/30/2021 3:35:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4121 ATI Hotkey Utility 368 KB
5 Status 0xe9b73d638608b5b20608db28186d3494 6/22/2021 11:26:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4132 ATI Hotkey Utility 396 KB
6 Status 0x281d26df656e53dab568214ee282ec46 5/8/2021 7:27:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 0 KB
7 Status 0x4deaa162480367b232f3ee3a6d34084b 1/29/2021 12:56:00 AM Unknown 6.14.4105 ATI Hotkey Utility 380 KB
8 Status 0x2a27a3a8634fb9e29f539d6d3ed3646a 11/25/2020 9:06:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 588 KB
9 Status 0x1635a809b90eac3c0a844249e9a35856 4/20/2019 5:15:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 588 KB
10 Status 0x9acfe943e4c48544462990dcd0737203 3/11/2019 1:02:00 AM Unknown 6.14.10.4115 ATI Hotkey Utility 356 KB
11 Status 0xe548eb303255721145418f85b77b9d8a 2/26/2019 11:11:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4121 ATI Hotkey Utility 368 KB
12 Status 0xed8d753788232b81a7e8ef5d59ec3417 1/1/2019 5:38:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4124 ATI Hotkey Utility 384 KB
13 Status 0x43e17da549bc8219eee90aa9c6480aaa 12/2/2018 4:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 0 KB
14 Status 0xbd421e6f0827cb66619b61631bd1713c 10/18/2018 4:00:00 AM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 628 KB
15 Status 0x3bdb99b092941dc1db2b09629cbf41da 8/11/2018 5:02:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4114 ATI Hotkey Utility 344 KB
16 Status 0x327eac8c955c19d3f6384ce3aab5ed31 6/17/2018 3:23:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 588 KB
17 Status 0xa8464ca51c598101a3fef341f4f0b6e0 6/16/2018 2:55:00 AM Unknown 6.14.4099 ATI Hotkey Utility 388 KB
18 Status 0xbba22521d24625c7a7b8d57fb20a812e 6/11/2018 7:12:00 AM Unknown 6.14.10.4129 ATI Hotkey Utility 396 KB
19 Status 0x79c43543a43166c1ca98517b2349293f 6/9/2018 6:25:00 AM Unknown 4.18.4060 ATI Hotkey Utility 144 KB
20 Status 0xfcfd6eef3c99df24edd3f975ebbc61b8 5/23/2018 11:31:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 568 KB
21 Status 0x65b2af103a6bf703d9ba6873c4725553 3/15/2018 9:32:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4174 ATI Hotkey Utility 472 KB
22 Status 0x33a587bf3fa04dfcaac2bd0ec2b0b5ef 3/7/2018 2:50:00 AM Unknown 6.14.4096 ATI Hotkey Utility 388 KB
23 Status 0x8fdb05aff463cb36be0fd3bc779121cd 2/20/2018 10:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown ATI Hotkey Utility 628 KB
24 Status 0x8bb6a2488a93259fddc18d040008c1a4 2/10/2018 4:57:00 PM Unknown 6.14.10.4149 ATI Hotkey Utility 420 KB
25 Status 0xbf997dfd2969902d9f7b983c1ba95811 2/7/2018 12:27:00 AM Unknown 6.14.10.4115 ATI Hotkey Utility 356 KB


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