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What is ghosttray.exe? Norton Ghost?

Vendor:      Symantec Corporation
Product:     Norton Ghost
Vendor Website:      http://www.symantec.com/ghost
Last Seen by PC Matic:      No Data

Process is Bad PC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is bad.
Process is questionablePC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that the safety of this process is questionable.
Process is goodPC Matic has analyzed this process and determined that there is a high likelihood that it is good.
Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: GhostTray.exe - Norton Ghost tray icon - the application can be launched manually.
This startup entry is started automatically from a Run, RunOnce, RunServices, or RunServicesOnce entry in the registry.

ghosttray.exe is a user invoked program and a normal part of PC operations. No action required.


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ghosttray.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
Learn more about protecting yourself from bad versions of this file with PC Matic.

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.02%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 14 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
ghosttray.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x5f8bdc81ac2063c1c4bbafb23f219b90 8/4/2017 7:50:00 PM Unknown 10.0.0.8400 Norton Ghost 1501 KB
2 Status 0xa280344e3ca3c00c65345bfa5f838540 6/20/2015 10:18:00 AM Unknown 10.0.3.20387 Norton Ghost 1501 KB
3 Status 0xe189ab22c5a0c99b3419d966940f113f 4/18/2015 4:46:00 PM Unknown 9.0.1.3874 Norton Ghost 1100 KB
4 Status 0xf7123a557ebd37348b18498c5b3afe14 12/9/2014 5:29:00 PM Unknown 9.0.0.2583 Norton Ghost 1096 KB
5 Status 0x294f5038a9d2ac73a8c6f3888f97fb42 9/5/2014 3:41:00 PM Unknown 10.0.1.9528 Norton Ghost 1501 KB
6 Status 0x60ec38d29b41fc824d1b7be600657e33 8/10/2011 10:51:00 AM Unknown 9.0.2.3981 Norton Ghost 1100 KB
7 Status 0x4fc9512e41423a3c06a39692ed919b97 3/12/2011 9:32:00 PM Unknown 10.0.0.8429 Norton Ghost 1501 KB
8 Status 0x01a8763fef34930b9db61605ea4eafca 2/14/2011 10:21:00 PM Unknown 10.0.0.8079 Norton Ghost 1496 KB
9 Status 0x49f7a2150dd414504e3ab1dfe29bb896 9/30/2009 7:43:00 PM Unknown 9.0.0.2632 Norton Ghost 1096 KB
10 Status 0x5be1bd5ff64f954a421e30c735862f8e 4/10/2009 7:28:00 PM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost 1096 KB
11 Status 0xb927ff534a14a3afa009e6765cf665e4 1/29/2009 5:41:00 AM Unknown 9.0.0.2503 Norton Ghost 1096 KB
12 Status 0xc04f0aac0694e42a46e71ecada6b9646 12/4/2008 4:35:00 PM Unknown 10.0.0.1 Norton Ghost 1501 KB
13 Status 0x510d2dbfb7e8e7a40fa8663c639c0853 6/21/2008 2:43:00 AM Unknown Unknown Norton Ghost 1501 KB
14 Status 0x260ffa6fbc4d2d133d389e0276e01308 12/31/2007 Unknown 10.0.3.20387 Norton Ghost 1859 KB
15 Status 0x64abb8948cbd5ab740a89eebc2e528b8 12/31/2007 Unknown 9.0.0.2583 Norton Ghost 1096 KB


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