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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.

wuauboot.exe (Windows Update)

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

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PC Pitstop Analysis

WUAUBOOT.EXE - Windows AutoUpdate for Windows Me. It is generally a good idea to leave this enabled. To disable the Windows Update Autoupdate feature, use Control Panel.

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Recommendation

wuauboot.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, wuauboot.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 Update

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 wuauboot.exe, we have detected 6 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

MD5 Report Summary
Program Name	MD5 Count
wuauboot.exe	6

#	MD5	Size
1	0x803addd71d81ef37ba0d8fb9d63488b9	70144 bytes
2	0xd5dab4f54d08c6dc4b25f9b20b9d83b9	417792 bytes
3	0x4dee91e337503b162d0c6168a732268e	106496 bytes
4	0xd082bcacdcb739f65e971d729927703a	69011 bytes
5	0x68964e52ca057a76510bcf33dd409fde	111248 bytes
6	0xd29092395cf8dd07814374d60cd73e82	89088 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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