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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.

Process Library

  

engineserver.exe (McAfee Engine Service)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.16%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 13 MB


PC Pitstop Analysis

McAfee Engine Service - is the Engine Service from McAfee.


Recommendation

Win Patrol

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



Identification

In addition to the file name, engineserver.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:McAfee, Inc.
Product contains:VSCORE
File name contains:VirusScan

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 engineserver.exe, we have detected 8 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
MD5 Report Summary
Program NameMD5 Count
engineserver.exe8
#MD5Size
10x65287c7dd897609e3f2707e42c901db214144 bytes
20xc3d7e3dcc470d0a5230a485549f2190819456 bytes
30xf66cfb031890559482caa984cb2053ef13632 bytes
40xedc243ef33f8da2a1a499331891d947213632 bytes
50x4cd26606c520cfb09d26cf4b27d2c45e14144 bytes
60xdc509080e03719e95a14511e5cccd4e721256 bytes
70x6fd79878e320793fe8dadb5958d399ac14144 bytes
80xe2fc2c30cbf4e5e90071719ef48fe75714144 bytes

PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. engineserver.exe (McAfee Engine Service) has been seen on 0.16% 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 13 MB. The average CPU load for this program was 0%.


Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://www.mcafee.com/

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.