Estimated safety rating

avupdate.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "probable danger" criteria described bellow. It is not yet known if avupdate.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't harm your computer. We recommend you to be careful with it.

Executable file path

Normally, this application is located in C:\Program Files\Glarysoft\Malware Hunter\Avira\avupdate.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this executable is 117237d11109e9d9b14cc0a9bf8d7975.

Is running as a service

This program is NOT a Windows service. This is very good.

Accesses the internet

This application uses the Internet to communicate. Today this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your PC check for updates. For this, Internet communications are necessary.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This application runs as a 32-bit program. It does not use the entire power of nowadays' computer processors. This is quite normal because the publishers did not bother to upgrade it to use the x64 instruction set.

File description

The description written in the exe is Updater.

File version

File version stored as a property UPDATER_VERSION_STRING.

Manufacturer

Producer Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG.

Copyright

Legal copyright � 2000 - 2014 Avira Operations GmbH & Co. KG and its Licensors.

Has valid windows

This exe does NOT have visible windows. This is usually a bad thing.

Digitally signed

The digital certificate is missing from this program. The maker did not bother to sign it. This is probably bad.

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have a removal routine set up in registry.