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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

  
PC Pitstop Libraries > Process Library > superhybridengine.exe

superhybridengine.exe (SuperHybridEngine)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.12%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 2 MB

PC Pitstop Analysis

HijackThis:
O4 - Global Startup: SuperHybridEngine.lnk = C:\Program Files\Asus\EeePC\Super Hybrid Engine\SuperHybridEngine.exe

SuperHybridEngine.exe manages the power in EeePC allowing it work for more hours. Also, it may manage some Fn keys.

Recommendation

Win Patrol

superhybridengine.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, superhybridengine.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:ASUSTeK Computer Inc.
Product contains:Eee Super Hybrid Engine
File name contains:\EeePC\Super Hybrid Engine\

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 superhybridengine.exe, we have detected 9 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
MD5 Report Summary
Program NameMD5 Count
superhybridengine.exe9
#MD5Size
10x52added5c967c963ee0a2a8dbd0ef4da311296 bytes
20x76330b19fcc7d17d4557a63c231bfe57294912 bytes
30x4f63ec4bdf4432a2c491b55ad6666952376832 bytes
40x59d7814d3e12c0b46072eef1da003729376832 bytes
50xd1517d6ff86503b8fc57433e402ff7ac294912 bytes
60x5c34d1f4ab514039b226c04145b6f992303104 bytes
70xd235681282b46885bf3174b0161cc351303104 bytes
80x000e5d189227de9655e6c6efb9c3a3f8376832 bytes
90x3ca580777f344bd509c2fe1d1f887158376832 bytes

PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. superhybridengine.exe (SuperHybridEngine) has been seen on 0.12% 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 2 MB. The average CPU load for this program was 0%.

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.