tvsu.exe
Sources: 300M+ executions observed in the wild.
Summary
Lenovo System Update (ThinkVantage) - downloads and installs Lenovo driver and firmware updates.
tvsu.exe is the 858th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 3,252 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\System Update and it is most often launched by tvsuShim.exe.
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Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\System Update100%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 4112b2ec7fe7cd639cf5c897e17f47871b118b8f39ece5902be1e5fc157d2de474.51%
- 520e436df870e34a4d0846189ee49a647bb0072796a8bca8e87a2b3d539a046a11.53%
- c6fb2f99f1967d1af6cc8c63ab99d0461f7ed81fedd123c7ec8333be9bcf613d5.2%
- 86766425acdd24a1e9083546bcd99dfdfcc826a8d7dc90777cae6c46917e093a4.98%
- ec55a78a675073c55a0f7eee04010304dfc11733b5725602ef902ad66e81cf792.68%
- c852be07a6c1cbc87609d6eeacc116dc0927d2f0f0e219531552e7f16f1d93cd1.11%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- svchost.exe94.51%
- taskeng.exe2.99%
- userinit.exe1.26%
- explorer.exe0.46%
- runonce.exe0.15%
Top Parents
- tvsuShim.exe97.29%
- explorer.exe1.45%
- cmd.exe0.62%
- runonce.exe0.62%
- RuntimeBroker.exe0.03%
Top Children
- TvsuCommandLauncher.exe49.96%
- ConfigService.exe25.03%
- UNCServer.exe25.01%
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