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HPUSBFW.exe

HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Hewlett-Packard Company

This is a setup program which is used to install the application. It runs as a scheduled task under the Windows Task Scheduler.
Publisher:
Hewlett-Packard Company

Product:
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool

Description:
HPUSBFW

Version:
2, 1, 8, 0

MD5:
13cfb4af3129a87cc841b9c8c3aaceba

SHA-1:
d2052f51bda80b66e7ed8507298b21f066e7bc2f

SHA-256:
71336787daa6829f5d3523aeff8cf71e19ff90c9dfd63f6e6d864a98b4bf381e

Scanner detections:
0 / 68

Status:
Clean (as of last analysis)

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 11:54:19 PM UTC  (a few moments ago)

File size:
436 KB (446,464 bytes)

Product version:
2, 1, 8, 0

Copyright:
Copyright © 2003-2004 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. All rights reserved.

Original file name:
HPUSBFW.exe

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
4/21/2004 4:38:05 PM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
6.0

CTPH (ssdeep):
12288:y+r1wOZH7w1C2WBZkegXb7IZTMTlpMURI:vhwEH7H2WBXQMURI

Entry address:
0x732D

Entry point:
55, 8B, EC, 6A, FF, 68, 08, D2, 40, 00, 68, C4, A5, 40, 00, 64, A1, 00, 00, 00, 00, 50, 64, 89, 25, 00, 00, 00, 00, 83, EC, 58, 53, 56, 57, 89, 65, E8, FF, 15, 64, D1, 40, 00, 33, D2, 8A, D4, 89, 15, 4C, 4D, 41, 00, 8B, C8, 81, E1, FF, 00, 00, 00, 89, 0D, 48, 4D, 41, 00, C1, E1, 08, 03, CA, 89, 0D, 44, 4D, 41, 00, C1, E8, 10, A3, 40, 4D, 41, 00, 33, F6, 56, E8, 61, 18, 00, 00, 59, 85, C0, 75, 08, 6A, 1C, E8, B0, 00, 00, 00, 59, 89, 75, FC, E8, 6E, 30, 00, 00, FF, 15, 60, D1, 40, 00, A3, BC, 62, 41, 00, E8...
 
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++ v6.0

Code size:
48 KB (49,152 bytes)

Scheduled Task
Task name:
{229EFDE7-837D-4C50-8618-CF6055326D13}

Trigger:
Registration (Runs on registration)


The file HPUSBFW.exe has been discovered within the following programs.

µTorrent  by BitTorrent Inc.
µTorrent is a is a free, ad-supported, lighter-weight BitTorrent client designed to consume less resources then the full BitTorrent version.
www.utorrent.com
12% remove it
BBS Tools  by BBS_Tools
Publisher's description - “BBS Tools is a tool for our browser . per . FerScrich ... Download Radar BBS Spain and Portugal (to be updated weekly). ”
www.laradiobbs.net
About 3% of users remove it
HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool  by Hewlett-Packard
Publisher's description - “HP USB Disk Storage Format Tool utility will format any USB flash drive, with your choice of FAT, FAT32, or NTFS partition types. You can also make the disk bootable by specifying a file location.”
www.hp.com
7% remove it
Spotnet  by Spotnet
Spotnet is a protocol on top of Usenet, providing a decentralized alternative to usenet indexing websites, and the NZB format in general.
github.com/spotnet/spotnet/wiki
About 4% of users remove it
 
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