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Tip from the PitCrew

Every process running on your computer takes up CPU cycles and valuable memory. For optimal PC performance and resource utilization, you should be aware of every process on your computer. PC Pitstop designed this process library to help you know which processes are worthwhile and others that slow system performance.

Furthermore, perhaps the quickest and most straight forward method to detect malware is through a running process analysis.

msgsrv32.exe (Message Server)

This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.

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PC Pitstop Analysis

MSGSRV32.EXE - Part of the core functionality of Windows 9x/Me. For technical details on its function, see Microsoft support document 138708.

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Recommendation

msgsrv32.exe is an essential part of Windows and required for Windows to work properly. It should never be disabled.

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides a easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.

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Identification

In addition to the file name, msgsrv32.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

Vendor contains:	Microsoft
Product contains:	Windows

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.

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MD5 Hashes

MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called msgsrv32.exe, we have detected more than 20 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

MD5 Report Summary
Program Name	MD5 Count
msgsrv32.exe	> 20

#	MD5	Size
1	0x7ff98f27f28279a7f75aded059592c30	12239 bytes
2	0x6715b42438ef4cabf5e90bd08d4770bf	36384 bytes
3	0x6b3de7f31f4a52e62bd66404dad944a3	11747 bytes
4	0x47200670621655ae7e02ee0eae28d57e	12055 bytes
5	0x8abe9e673d477bcd3f0d687293c343dd	11587 bytes
6	0x1dcc43919556bfa43cdc91a5be0ab87d	12079 bytes
7	0xb9ef4c53ffb69a7daa941f5223f5d254	11931 bytes
8	0x80d371c310e5020383047b10aa041841	11899 bytes
9	0x800464e41d17a5d50e0e71171dfa4f90	12035 bytes
10	0x4b7546e40ea1eaceeb330cb4d259265a	11776 bytes
11	0xea58a9fc40907b7fa8056d04b1fe39dc	12095 bytes
12	0xf2285d43b43f7d20c4238dfa6dc189ec	11499 bytes
13	0x4115764eabb6bd0a0406dd4eb07e0726	56832 bytes
14	0x96bde4106fd1e675856d512ed1023047	11431 bytes
15	0xc550c1e88b07257e21cfd3bf1079da0c	11919 bytes
16	0x6d46c6351e44bea9e5a9a3edec2d887a	11907 bytes
17	0x65d940eb0831ace8e462ebed7412013f	12215 bytes
18	0xc7a791f1cbe82c8e9e77d7fe6912c2b3	12123 bytes
19	0x44d691d1c0e75d9e99addcc87078c856	15083 bytes
20	0x9b5b8d198eb286578c409ff20b264b06	12143 bytes

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PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.

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