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pcspeedmaximizer.exe

PC Speed Maximizer

Smart PC Solutions, Inc.

The application pcspeedmaximizer.exe, “Fix, clean, optimize your PC!” by Smart PC Solutions has been detected as a potentially unwanted program by 1 anti-malware scanner with very strong indications that the file is a potential threat. This file is typically installed with the program PC Speed Maximizer v2.1 by Smart PC Solutions which is a potentially unwanted software program.
Publisher:
Avanquest  (signed by Smart PC Solutions, Inc.)

Product:
PC Speed Maximizer

Description:
Fix, clean, optimize your PC!

Version:
2.1.0.0

MD5:
b6c2e4e69604fc107819b7f7eb6a5e39

SHA-1:
ea111dfb244096c31352a1d0f005e2dee3774967

SHA-256:
f5a3d974619d47b0d7c02ac8cc7cddedfee13d43ce576e94613fe99aecafebb2

Scanner detections:
1 / 68

Status:
Potentially unwanted

Note:
Our current pool of anti-malware engines have not currently detected this file, however based on our own detection heuristics we feel that this file is unwanted.

Analysis date:
4/19/2024 8:51:01 AM UTC  (today)

Scan engine
Detection
Engine version

Reason Heuristics
PUP.PC Utilities.SmartPCSolutions (M)
16.2.10.15

File size:
16.4 MB (17,205,520 bytes)

Product version:
2.1.0.0

Copyright:
Avanquest Software

Trademarks:
Avanquest Software

Original file name:
PCSpeedMaximizer

File type:
Executable application (Win32 EXE)

Language:
English (United States)

Common path:
C:\Program Files\pc speed maximizer\pcspeedmaximizer.exe

Digital Signature
Signed by:
Smart PC Solutions, Inc.

Authority:
VeriSign, Inc.

Valid from:
4/16/2009 2:00:00 AM

Valid to:
5/31/2011 1:59:59 AM

Subject:
CN="Smart PC Solutions, Inc.", OU=Digital ID Class 3 - Microsoft Software Validation v2, O="Smart PC Solutions, Inc.", L=Alexandria, S=Virginia, C=US

Issuer:
CN=VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA, OU=Terms of use at https://www.verisign.com/rpa (c)04, OU=VeriSign Trust Network, O="VeriSign, Inc.", C=US

Serial number:
5267DCE6AF375FA7C4F1CA65BD87DF80

File PE Metadata
Compilation timestamp:
6/20/1992 12:22:17 AM

OS version:
4.0

OS bitness:
Win32

Subsystem:
Windows GUI

Linker version:
2.25

CTPH (ssdeep):
24576:C/HeXi2fgZGb6rCzUjVH/1iJkhHs2+gcvUAkS2R2AjbXoh4NflC8ADt12X:C/fLGyGKTALWHfohilC8IY

Entry address:
0xD4FA8

Entry point:
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Developed / compiled with:
Microsoft Visual C++

Code size:
848.5 KB (868,864 bytes)

The file pcspeedmaximizer.exe has been discovered within the following program.

PC Speed Maximizer v2.1  by Smart PC Solutions
Smart PC Solutions is marketed as a PC performance optimizer that utilizes several techniques to attempt to increase the speed of the user's PC include registry tuning (which is a practice that is often criticized by experts as producing no results) as well as hard drive scrubbing.
www.avanquest.com
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