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What is the "vprot.exe" ?

vprot.exe is in most cases part of AVG Toolbar component. vprot.exe protects AVG Toolbar and default search settings of your browser to keep AVG Safe Search as your primary search. Some version of vprot.exe contains bug which leads to crash of the application. More information about this bug can be found in AVG Forum.

Our database contains 5174 different files for filename vprot.exe . This files most often belongs to product VProtect Application. . This files most often have description VProtect Application. Agregate rating is 5 stars - based on 12 reviews. This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process vprot.exe.
vprot.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "vprot.exe"

Product:
VProtect Application
Company:
(Empty Value)
Description:
VProtect Application
Version:
13.2.0.5
MD5:
c25602103b927a359b3ed9307eb37ed6
SHA1:
09aab53a95363edd80e42a469cd3c682451541b6
SHA256:
b509040c6d24450cb2955ca01a47a270cd146dad6c3c7bee822ce71704c1550c
Size:
997320
Directory:
%PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search
Operating System:
Windows Vista
Discovered:
November 1, 2012
Occurence:
High oc2
Digital Signature:
AVG Technologies

Is the Process "vprot.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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100% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "vprot.exe" was discovered 4 days ago. Our database contains 70 variants of the file "vprot.exe" with final rating Safe and 1 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "vprot.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "vprot.exe"

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  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    dee photo

    I don't want vprot.exe on my computer,and I want it gone with all its messages.

    (id: 1478102)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    MikeOne photo

    vprot.exe is part of AVG Toolbar component. vprot.exe protects AVG Toolbar and default search settings of your browser to keep AVG Safe Search as your primary search. Some version of vprot.exe contains bug which leads to crash of the application. More information about this bug can be found here: http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=185252

    (id: 1349025)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    Admin photo

    vprot.exe is part of AVG Toolbar component. vprot.exe protects AVG Toolbar and default search settings of your browser to keep AVG Safe Search as your primary search. Some version of vprot.exe contains bug which leads to crash of the application. More information about this bug can be found here: http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=185252

    (id: 1609772)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG SafeGuard toolbar\vprot.exe

    MikeOne photo

    vprot.exe is in most cases part of AVG Toolbar component (AVG SafeGuard toolbar). vprot.exe protects AVG Toolbar and default search settings of your browser to keep AVG Safe Search as your primary search - which is btw a way AVG can monetize the searches - so this application can be marked as an adware... Some version of vprot.exe contains bug which leads to crash of the application. More information about this bug can be found in AVG Forum : http://forums.avg.com/ww-en/avg-forums?sec=thread&act=show&id=185252

    (id: 18317356)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    tja23 photo

    Part of AVG 2012. Part of AVG 2012 install set as of 9/24/2011.

    (id: 1609772)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG SafeGuard toolbar\vprot.exe

    MikeOne photo

    vprot.exe is in most cases part of AVG Toolbar component (AVG SafeGuard toolbar). vprot.exe protects AVG Toolbar and default search settings of your browser to keep AVG Safe Search as your primary search - which is btw a way AVG can monetize the searches - so this application can be marked as an adware... Some version of vprot.exe contains bug which leads to crash of the application. More information about this bug can be found in AVG Forum.

    (id: 18828095)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    DanKelTex photo

    Part of AVG 2012

    (id: 1349025)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    (id: 1349025)

  • SAFErating from user for file %PROGRAMFILES%\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe

    (id: 1609772)