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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.

rpcss.exe (Remote Procedure Call)

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

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PC Pitstop Analysis

RPCSS.EXE - RPCSS (Remote Procedure Call SubSystem) is required for many Windows components to run. It starts COM (Common Object Model) software components and provides the EXE file that they run through.

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Recommendation

rpcss.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, rpcss.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 rpcss.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
rpcss.exe	> 20

#	MD5	Size
1	0xce9c4007585f538f769cc80f01d09d33	20480 bytes
2	0x4ab799dcb2a3caed5699ab19dd83f9d0	20480 bytes
3	0x6dac477d4ab268ae35aaf59afee4abcb	122128 bytes
4	0xffc8880e4c42c3c028af791963d1cb9f	20480 bytes
5	0xa374012d02aca19bd5132f2888681388	8464 bytes
6	0x1abc6a9aff9edd470540664d2949ec66	20480 bytes
7	0xce7cc4364a01bf382bda45ee8c8f5a54	20480 bytes
8	0x5978f9bbc0583ff1fe992222a275e98e	20480 bytes
9	0xc1053edbfac6152267b71426111fec1b	20480 bytes
10	0x575ff77cedbdc7a18d8d0a90335d0a68	20480 bytes
11	0x86b31d4bb0e2319a43ef96ba5171bb46	20480 bytes
12	0xd7123d36c132f97e4272d1162b97b87f	20480 bytes
13	0x2130d9918ea7862e4fb4b4ba8115cdaa	20480 bytes
14	0xb92119c35d87b9a24d226d96b5968ff6	20480 bytes
15	0xbcf3f4bcfdddf6f49fc5fb5f3ddd595b	20480 bytes
16	0x98885e76974575b61d9f4919ac9d3c7e	20480 bytes
17	0xd3a10127cf14c65654f921b99f35051d	8464 bytes
18	0x4b2b2c8d58e36efedffa8d96dcf07089	20480 bytes
19	0x198204bbf222928dc083a51a8022e4b7	8464 bytes
20	0xf558da464e0243d9293bf7b4312eec07	20480 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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