Click here to run our free scan and see if your computer's processes are safe. To find out how to make your computer faster, try running our Free PC Matic Scan.
Unknown
Safe
User Optional
Unwanted
Spyware / Adware
Virus
More than one possible match was found; all matches are listed below in order of their prevalence. This only tells you what the file and the correct action might be.
To understand which possibility is actually running on your own system, perform an Overdrive test and then look at the Software|Processes tab.
You may find more information on this process by visiting Process Detail Pages.
Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 99.00%
Average CPU use for this program: 1%
Average RAM for this program: 54 MB
In addition to the file name, iexplore.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 Corporation |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | Internet Explorer |
| File name contains: | \Internet Explorer\ |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
iexplore.exe is used by the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser program and will always be running while you're accessing the PC Pitstop site.
iexplore.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 an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.
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 iexplore.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| iexplore.exe | > 10 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0x538ffe35145a14dda534226475e5c1e8 | 254464 bytes | |||||
| 2 | 0x7023bc3af58f0c47856af147e290d81a | 625152 bytes | |||||
| 3 | 0xc69585a5c1cc4509171c14e09ae185b5 | 620032 bytes | |||||
| 4 | 0xedee147e416398bb3dd5b0dd4f6f1d32 | 625152 bytes | |||||
| 5 | 0x3b0833a3fc5e2e79e4e6ffcc0c6911fb | 337920 bytes | |||||
| MD5 Hashes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | ||
| 6 | 0x275cee268b9e5d82474c43d5d249d111 | 625152 bytes | ||
| 7 | 0xe863af5173af7cb48b9fbdb451af8f56 | 1039360 bytes | ||
| 8 | 0x8308f01f27df839e0010b0f72f855e35 | 623616 bytes | ||
| 9 | 0xd321092f8529cdae843d6e24e3cac6cb | 625152 bytes | ||
| 10 | 0xb54f49085db1d835b4b26c1dcb3b7fff | 622080 bytes | ||
Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 3.59%
Average CPU use for this program: 5%
Average RAM for this program: 51 MB
In addition to the file name, iexplore.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 Corporation |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | Microsoft |
| File name contains: | \I |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
iexplore.exe is used by the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser program and will always be running while you're accessing the PC Pitstop site.
iexplore.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 an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.
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 iexplore.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| iexplore.exe | > 10 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0x9a34a7fd4a129c41828c2893705d80e4 | 98304 bytes | |||||
| 2 | 0xeff0999907d3cb4ccdb83893fee67502 | 287232 bytes | |||||
| 3 | 0xe04ae5fcce9fe80756e01dc4955bf19d | 100864 bytes | |||||
| 4 | 0x6696b8511e6f10a82261b81a6b18a43f | 1383936 bytes | |||||
| 5 | 0xc6dec3acc73743acd0b29084727e9054 | 60848 bytes | |||||
| MD5 Hashes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | ||
| 6 | 0xa5ccb910a2c9857b556def0f4b68834d | 99840 bytes | ||
| 7 | 0x9de883f087d3327f03b44fe154a4b925 | 91648 bytes | ||
| 8 | 0xe5673a3f9b0829281db29ed9c9a8f6c3 | 91136 bytes | ||
| 9 | 0xa91d342dcc18a4a6e091d801e67b04d4 | 208384 bytes | ||
| 10 | 0x4899f204d4fbe2d8058e6529475416c5 | 91136 bytes | ||
This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.
In addition to the file name, iexplore.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: | ÐšÐ¾Ñ |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | ОпР|
| File name contains: | \Internet Explorer\ |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
iexplore.exe is used by the Microsoft Internet Explorer browser program and will always be running while you're accessing the PC Pitstop site.
iexplore.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 an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.
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 iexplore.exe, we have detected 1 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| iexplore.exe | 1 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0xc8570d4d877a1e456756a4bfab2bc956 | 91136 bytes | |||||
This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.
The file name alone identifies this program.
http://search.ca.com/search/ca?style=en&search_button=Search&qt=iexplore.exe&col=
iexplore.exe is a file name that has been used by some malware. Legitimate iexplore.exe has vendor Microsoft Corporation and Product information as Windows Internet Explorer or Microsoft.
This is not the case, many threat uses this same file name.
Run a virus scan to clean this system.
iexplore.exe is a VIRUS. Stop all work until the virus is removed or you run the risk of spreading the virus to other people. Worse yet, the virus may be doing harm to your computer and your information.
iexplore.exe is a virus and should be removed immediately to avoid doing further harm. PC Pitstop recommends PC Matic in these types of situations.
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 iexplore.exe, we have detected more than 10 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| iexplore.exe | > 10 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0xaad3c1ec21b726fcb99bfe6613d97ddd | 7680 bytes | |||||
| 2 | 0xc75df6e81237afee9fc5f02a666571a5 | 47784 bytes | |||||
| 3 | 0x88ba5812b8ed4635022fa254f22915ec | 39424 bytes | |||||
| 4 | 0xde0fd358b1d3b7a33f3a92a30929ba03 | 401153 bytes | |||||
| 5 | 0xe559a72c04f9c23bf57a1488360e1a79 | 7168 bytes | |||||
| MD5 Hashes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | ||
| 6 | 0x390f1d5cce43cc90b355a67bde8cb97d | 1439232 bytes | ||
| 7 | 0x6439ce3ef47bba3813c62b8bb52cdb1c | 7168 bytes | ||
| 8 | 0xc42869b929b0b189776ff27c0b842cc9 | 51200 bytes | ||
| 9 | 0x4ae593d6b2a5cc06e53129768f33155f | 282769 bytes | ||
| 10 | 0x4ac8fbb2db1f0de0cc812f1a9402d51f | 7680 bytes | ||
This program has not been seen on any systems tested at PC Pitstop in the past week.
In addition to the file name, iexplore.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: | Avant Browser |
|---|---|
| Product contains: | Avant Browser |
| File name contains: | \Avant Browser\ |
To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.
iexplore.exe is a file name used by the Avant Browser, another way to navigate in the Internet.
iexplore.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.
PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides an easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.
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 iexplore.exe, we have detected 6 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
| Program Name | MD5 Count |
| iexplore.exe | 6 |
| MD5 Hashes | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | |||||
| 1 | 0xca5b60524acc19816c38ccb010af1583 | 678912 bytes | |||||
| 2 | 0x98ca23ca35ccdfce9ae713c338539521 | 696832 bytes | |||||
| 3 | 0x67dd2e175b370948bcc286f48842a713 | 690688 bytes | |||||
| MD5 Hashes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| # | MD5 | Size | ||
| 4 | 0xa9634c5ca135b2efc6870b86f5da09ac | 676352 bytes | ||
| 5 | 0x94f7e18eafbcaff8c42fa92567193635 | 691712 bytes | ||
| 6 | 0x88ed3534f827164f53af379b83c80032 | 678400 bytes | ||
PC Pitstop is the undisputed leader in PC diagnostics. Our running process library is culled from our database of over 100 million PC diagnostics and scans.
To find the latest driver for your computer we recommend running our Free Driver Scan.
Find out how to make your computer faster by running our Free Performance Scan.
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.
› Get more tipsA 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.