Estimated safety rating

mcupdate.exe may be a dangerous program, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers too many of the "probable danger" flags detailed in this document. It is not yet known if mcupdate.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't cause harm your computer. We advise you to be careful with this program.

Executable file path

Usually, the default filename and directory where the program is stored is
C:\Program Files\McAfee.com\Agent\mcupdate.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this file is 742f7473269c2daf301bd42aeb645d03.

Is running as a service

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

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs in 32-bit mode. It does not benefit of the entire power of nowadays' computer CPUs. This is quite normal because the authors did not bother to upgrade it to 64-bit code.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

This executable does NOT have an uninstall routine stored in registry.