aexagentuihost.exe - Process Library

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aexagentuihost.exe (Altiris Agent)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.11%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB

PC Pitstop Analysis

According to Symantec:
ALTIRIS AND SYMANTEC ARE NOW ONE COMPANY. We are currently in the process of migrating content and functionality from the Altiris websites, and have created this page to assist you in navigating to Altiris-related product, support, and services information.

Altiris service-oriented management solutions provide a modular and future-proof approach to managing highly diverse and widely distributed IT infrastructures. They are open solutions that enable lifecycle integration of client, handheld, server, network and other IT assets with audit-ready security and automated operation.

This process hosts the system tray icon for those computers logged onto the NS via terminal services. In addition, you will see one instance of this process for each user logged on to the system.

There is a registry key setting that can keep AexAgentUIHost.exe from loading for each user:

HKLM\Software\Altiris\Altiris Agent\Run UI in main Session only.
Changing the value to 1 will keep the process from loading for every user

Recommendation

aexagentuihost.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.

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Identification

In addition to the file name, aexagentuihost.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:	Altiris
Product contains:	Altiris Agent
File name contains:	\Altiris\Altiris Agent\

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

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 aexagentuihost.exe, we have detected 8 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.

MD5 Report Summary
Program Name	MD5 Count
aexagentuihost.exe	8

#	MD5	Size
1	0x8230ab6872b64c328a91220d08d0adad	163840 bytes
2	0xc48f044ee4de9c484df315ba4ccb5e96	163840 bytes
3	0xe688a3148376fe55b8efcf463491c384	163840 bytes
4	0x1f67ac2d18309ff2c5813da53920a191	191024 bytes
5	0xb735f8b85f00ef1fd87a9d2c0eadc417	163840 bytes
6	0xa318275a826f42a4e9c24244f2c963f0	155648 bytes
7	0x3fe331c2e20ec69529fff2e0d61ed24f	193072 bytes
8	0xfc943e9cd5a9458a09cf5bad93de0873	191784 bytes

PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. aexagentuihost.exe (Altiris Agent) has been seen on 0.11% of systems tested at PC Pitstop. As a point of comparison, it is rare for a particular malicious program (virus or spyware) to be seen on more than one or two percent of all systems tested. The average RAM memory usage for this process was 3 MB. The average CPU load for this program was 0%.

Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://www.symantec.com/business/theme.jsp?themeid=altiris

Important note: A file name alone may not be enough for positive identification. PC Pitstop's Overdrive tests and spyware scan use information such as the company name, product name, or install directory. If you are unable to identify a file, ask about it in our forums after running our full tests.