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What is toolbarupdater.exe? ToolbarUpdater?

Vendor:      
Product:     ToolbarU Application
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.
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: Toolbarupdater.exe and Vprot.exe are legitimate processes used by AVG. Vprot.exe is part of AVG Secure Search and ToolbarUpdater.exe is a service responsible for performing silent update of the toolbar

toolbarupdater.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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toolbarupdater.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: 1.42%
Average CPU use for this program: null%
Average RAM for this program: null MB


Program Name MD5 Count
toolbarupdater.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x7d110d645030c05a06c3cd08d1e47d0a 2/5/2018 9:50:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 694 KB
2 Status 0x87c57cbe385e00726a2113614f6c6bd2 1/17/2018 8:31:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 942 KB
3 Status 0x50d3941555fefdf46424431702ec5fb6 3/28/2017 5:32:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 923 KB
4 Status 0x0fe113245e2994f2c772601fb7006337 1/14/2017 11:50:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 1730 KB
5 Status 0x41404aa06914e6f94d14b671ae1e5c37 12/6/2016 1:29:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 848 KB
6 Status 0xef51747440486c23bd466311048bd924 11/15/2016 6:06:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 906 KB
7 Status 0x980e45498392e6659d2e7c44e7de2336 11/9/2016 4:33:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 887 KB
8 Status 0x3ad1e72748978d8b0b3b674741e4c3e2 7/22/2016 9:52:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 946 KB
9 Status 0x8ed347bad8d1fb7c40b593bfb01786d2 4/26/2016 5:35:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 913 KB
10 Status 0x56e1e4442e4613fb2039a6b7421f4e58 1/26/2016 1:15:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 910 KB
11 Status 0x8c3688c051a52652eaf4b2e38bfce215 12/16/2015 8:10:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 942 KB
12 Status 0x2f208ad0e44992e5ff1cb7c6b699c263 12/16/2015 8:10:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 1578 KB
13 Status 0x760c2dc98878cf61e3c5feee0d155eea 7/27/2015 10:32:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 923 KB
14 Status 0x52591834b0fa3293d35fd407fc230f7d 6/24/2015 7:37:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 705 KB
15 Status 0x8a603dabd6a7fa5f31e2b6e562e0ebdf 6/21/2015 4:40:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 835 KB
16 Status 0xef11725916a69dfaf82ab26ec219f088 4/2/2015 1:55:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 873 KB
17 Status 0xf98a970d02b35870c8013b43736f7904 2/17/2015 11:54:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 810 KB
18 Status 0xcba3f6ef1e70167db376b4013f71a62b 1/24/2015 1:38:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 705 KB
19 Status 0x7db85b78309c05c9f06f469ed976dc9e 11/22/2014 2:09:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 694 KB
20 Status 0x5fa45791413acce628d5361458f32dde 11/9/2014 12:49:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 913 KB
21 Status 0x78216e34086608c48c4a3d25337a752e 10/24/2014 7:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 1771 KB
22 Status 0x40dba03782bcc10685a8c200c5ebdcd0 10/12/2014 5:48:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 705 KB
23 Status 0x8b1502c0071491e992eb58f5eed50f90 10/2/2014 8:24:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 1771 KB
24 Status 0x668f87a765e8a5b8c2e0f98369ffda97 9/10/2014 11:05:00 AM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 923 KB
25 Status 0x8e637b22d24d6a41f02dac8850e110a4 9/2/2014 5:48:00 PM Unknown Unknown ToolbarUpdater 1759 KB


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