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What is avgwdsvc.exe? AVG Watchdog?

Vendor:      AVG
Product:     AVG
Vendor Website:      http://www.grisoft.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: avgwdsvc.exe is part of AVG Internet Security.

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


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avgwdsvc.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: 4.66%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 11 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
avgwdsvc.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x5a63285cc0d3323d720e0c518fe74ca3 3/1/2016 4:35:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 282 KB
2 Status 0x2ec36c3f9f64fb0b55ba3c43c11293b1 2/3/2016 11:33:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 300 KB
3 Status 0x9b40d378d4e521464212e878be8216a4 12/30/2014 10:09:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 226 KB
4 Status 0x48939d9f350aef9370f03a1e49a49be2 12/23/2014 10:49:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 276 KB
5 Status 0x6b72e1e329c4e98c6b6fdd2d265e3ba3 12/2/2014 9:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 192 KB
6 Status 0x13bb5f8819f90ce30a967fd94823e21b 11/21/2014 12:40:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 282 KB
7 Status 0x8006a6254b4dc762336e71fd61971a9d 11/13/2014 3:29:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 291 KB
8 Status 0x3a0977cb68af13e2579e47eb8984056b 11/2/2014 6:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 276 KB
9 Status 0x6699ece24fe4b3f752a66c66a602ee86 10/27/2014 3:26:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 188 KB
10 Status 0xf43c8fcc7fdb984fd06fe29baa741947 10/6/2014 6:53:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 225 KB
11 Status 0xe5c581d358b62cf65776b8e4e17b9e5c 9/22/2014 12:53:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 285 KB
12 Status 0x52df52027bb0fdc945ff2d66e8bbce57 6/18/2014 7:14:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 307 KB
13 Status 0xd9eb91d8dd04d4dce41c8fae67d20449 9/26/2013 10:25:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 294 KB
14 Status 0x19781ae826fd0a14be5b583408c6185f 9/3/2013 5:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 293 KB
15 Status 0x7aeecd93549bfec4f632a2086b9d2e2a 4/23/2013 3:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 276 KB
16 Status 0xc2b6eb66fd3175d108cf0bf6b34356a6 3/17/2013 6:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 281 KB
17 Status 0xdc98337f0d2a9f6c0b6fb682297ece3b 3/13/2013 11:20:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 276 KB
18 Status 0x0d2eb149aff89a307e5d82d0a2b78439 10/12/2012 3:03:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 189 KB
19 Status 0x42f11f37cc06d9ab6528af2e215b8799 9/5/2012 12:26:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 179 KB
20 Status 0x725b38bd0058294b3e4d6fd711dac87a 8/4/2012 9:46:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 184 KB
21 Status 0xcfcd33197116051e1abc515bfdf16cc3 7/13/2012 1:11:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 192 KB
22 Status 0x4af61a15b3614fef25fe93ea2fabd620 2/4/2012 12:11:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 259 KB
23 Status 0xdcb5afcd4f6b3f2367b6bb59355060e7 1/29/2012 6:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 200 KB
24 Status 0xdef7ed5319e84fa1a2b4c6c2e2e7d7f2 1/16/2012 1:54:00 PM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 254 KB
25 Status 0x5f05adb270102264db22bbbf5b85e507 1/10/2012 12:36:00 AM Unknown Unknown AVG Watchdog 259 KB


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