AVRemoveW.exe
by Various
Endpoint Security
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
AV Remover - removes conflicting antivirus products before new AV installation.
AVRemoveW.exe is the 1222nd most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 1,253 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\ProgramData\... and it is most often launched by SophosUpdate.exe.
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1222nd
most commonly executed Windows program
1,253
observed endpoint executions
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\ProgramData\...99.92%
- C:\Users\...0.08%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 8e9c75fcfccfdc468ab69bc46580d25a2fd70c4aa6536b29ff42e95ae561fdfd98.65%
- 3842498b4b044a1f36734447ba8677befe01f992034b6ecf44bac1f1a053bb8e0.67%
- 9021b26783ebbcbdeddbf89fc5f107c544553589544d3e11d867b87fa16d0b950.51%
- b5f81bc4252f7125034731b1ef2de994d93df997a1c454696c05d99a57bb9adb0.08%
- b60a2a0ab20b52ae9917db60628f94c0b700a310f1ab258d1a8a8bcc3ae864270.08%
Process Ancestry
Top Parents
- SophosUpdate.exe99.2%
- setup.exe0.08%
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