Estimated safety rating

firefoxupdate.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. It triggers too many of the "possible danger" flags detailed in this document. It is yet unknown if firefoxupdate.exe is malware or a legit program which doesn't harm your computer. We recommend you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

This application is normally found on disk in C:\Program Files (x86)\Firefox\bin\FirefoxUpdate.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is 79d92084006785f21b69a8a725b7fc25.

Is running as a service

This application is set up as a Windows service. This means it runs on your system in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are useful programs, which perform useful functions to other programs or to Windows in general.

Accesses the internet

This executable uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is expected from a program. For example, most of the apps on your PC check for new updates. For this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This application runs as a 32-bit program. It does not exploit the full power of nowadays' PC chips. This ordinarily happens because the publishers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File version

File version 52.0.11.852.

Copyright

Legal copyright Copyright (C) 2017.

Digitally signed

A digital signature is missing from this program. The publisher did not sign it. This is usually bad.

Can be uninstalled

This program does NOT have an uninstall command stored in registry.