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What is vlc.exe? vlc.exe?

Vendor:      the VideoLAN Team
Product:     VLC media player
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: vlc.exe -

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vlc.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: 0.08%
Average CPU use for this program: 1%
Average RAM for this program: 78 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
vlc.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x5a957b5d58c40c573fc4a5bd9c1e9f16 6/26/2016 5:07:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 92 KB
2 Status 0x046513904972dd573dc73e46530d2016 1/28/2015 2:49:00 AM Unknown 0.8.5 VLC media player 91 KB
3 Status 0xbe440656716c4224795cf99864ac6d28 9/29/2014 3:28:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 132 KB
4 Status 0x74d8fd426969f4651e6828a2bfe08132 2/6/2012 5:32:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 132 KB
5 Status 0xb34d01947a46eecebfa526afc1e8fae0 1/9/2012 3:25:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 93 KB
6 Status 0x2ddec3c34f4b5c3c7714f39bdf6c4cc6 8/8/2011 8:49:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 137 KB
7 Status 0x8791a0bf1f6a2ad0993f1d4a1f133652 7/31/2011 11:45:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 93 KB
8 Status 0x6fdc0adcbff456e098f04f163054d8f4 7/30/2011 12:53:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 132 KB
9 Status 0xd6df9a37a79bb76b9e5c50697e236aa2 7/4/2011 2:26:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 132 KB
10 Status 0xbb7600c37b4ac554adcc1fadc9def743 6/30/2011 6:58:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 112 KB
11 Status 0xb2ac5fe749409f3bab400298a022a3b8 6/5/2011 6:32:00 PM Unknown 0.8.6d VLC media player 94 KB
12 Status 0x4f4afd4650e1ea4410b934142dd63ea9 4/8/2011 5:58:00 PM Unknown 0.8.6 VLC media player 91 KB
13 Status 0xd386b6a97297d0ba25549798333b2ad1 3/21/2011 3:28:00 PM Unknown 0.8.6e VLC media player 93 KB
14 Status 0xd22b741c1f0a089d200f534d77463a88 2/11/2011 1:48:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 93 KB
15 Status 0x0c803988240f482d287e960e6a98e620 1/9/2011 10:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 112 KB
16 Status 0x94d2744e9d7c726aaca1966830b1eb33 11/24/2010 12:47:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 92 KB
17 Status 0xaff22b62939aba302df256c466fcc72c 10/5/2010 10:42:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 132 KB
18 Status 0xd32d38d74dbca393046b1fa6ff830169 8/30/2010 7:05:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 112 KB
19 Status 0xd66d888ee859f38d5a5073da157e5940 6/21/2010 7:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 93 KB
20 Status 0x9b6fe9bf5ecad862833d5a3ed596cd22 5/20/2010 9:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 94 KB
21 Status 0xbf5765aa356c27657c4eb712d6c558d4 4/22/2010 5:01:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 112 KB
22 Status 0xe1934b5ab17dbccdf4f5deb09ec2cc8f 4/21/2010 3:58:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 93 KB
23 Status 0xad033871cfeb6a7cb3ec3b6dd076dc16 4/18/2010 10:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 113 KB
24 Status 0x6e3153cbd7615acb3dbbd1caa378761d 3/16/2010 7:47:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 112 KB
25 Status 0x64a9f8169b7bf9b4e44a714075b0cbb8 3/7/2010 12:27:00 AM Unknown Unknown VLC media player 138 KB


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