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What is adobe_updater.exe? Adobe Updater?

Vendor:      Adobe Systems Incorporated
Product:     Adobe Updater
Vendor Website:      http://www.adobe.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.
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: Not a essential component. It rings home time to time and look for new versions for programs installed in your system. We recommend you to run it manually.

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


adobe_updater.exe is known to be a bad process. Learn more about protecting your PC from these bad processes with PC Matic.
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adobe_updater.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.04%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 7 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
adobe_updater.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x7cfd590987d2bb33d5d56d98093d2e76 2/24/2015 11:49:00 PM Unknown Unknown Adobe Updater 2462 KB
2 Status 0x34c4db669b76a662c5fa7c199e4f7519 8/14/2011 2:21:00 AM Unknown Unknown Adobe Updater 2457 KB
3 Status 0x90b35a5d871f61e57a61cc6069944bb4 11/21/2010 11:51:00 PM Unknown Unknown Adobe Updater 2457 KB
4 Status 0x589004ea281fb2fc1dd1da564c940d4c 6/4/2010 10:37:00 AM Unknown Unknown Adobe Updater 2460 KB
5 Status 0x597ffd669642ab5f07aaf59b3ad77864 11/27/2009 10:33:00 AM Unknown Unknown Adobe Updater 2530 KB


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