Estimated safety rating

privoxy.exe may be a dangerous application, according to heuristic analysis. This program triggers many of the "possible danger" criteria detailed bellow. It is not yet known if privoxy.exe is malware or an ok program which doesn't cause harm your PC. We advise you to be careful with this application.

Executable file path

Usually, the default filename and folder where this application is stored is
C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\privoxy\privoxy.exe.

MD5 hash of the executable file

The MD5 checksum for this program is 8d3300aa25375d0df724979b28f33b27.

Is running as a service

This application is set up as a Windows service. This means it operates on your system in background, usually without showing any user interface to you. Most Windows services are legit programs, which provide useful functions to other applications or to the Windows Operating System.

Accesses the internet

This executable uses the Internet to communicate. In this day and age this is quite normal. For example, most of the apps on your PC check for new updates. In order to do this, Internet communications are required.

Is a 32 bit executable file

This app runs as a 32-bit program. It can not benefit of the entire power of current computer chips. This is quite normal because the makers did not upgrade it to 64-bit code.

File description

The description written in the program is svchost.

File version

File version stored as a property 1.0.12.

Copyright

Legal copyright Distributed under the GNU GPL.

Digitally signed

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

Can be uninstalled

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