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What is brss01a.exe? Brother printer?

Vendor:      brother
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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.
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Process is goodThis process is a Microsoft or Windows process, but many viruses use this file name to escape notice.

Purpose: brss01a.exe supports Brother printers. We do not currently know whether this program is required for operation of the printer.

brss01a.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.


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brss01a.exe is a Microsoft or Windows process but some versions of this exe carry viruses.
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Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.25%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 1 MB


Program Name MD5 Count
brss01a.exe

MD5 Hashes

# Status MD5 Revision Name Size
1 Status 0x9e646cd378d4d0c996baf9bcb18237c7 2/5/2019 4:20:00 AM Unknown 1.004 Brother printer 44 KB
2 Status 0xf01964d14c12496f5297b8c2e16cefa1 7/30/2014 4:38:00 PM Unknown 1.007 Brother printer 44 KB
3 Status 0x9b01d42d72fd0526360c174f34c52255 8/1/2011 10:57:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 44 KB
4 Status 0x5ee5920a85ceec805041c4a72074b449 6/28/2010 4:14:00 AM Unknown 1, 0, 0, 1 Brother printer 44 KB
5 Status 0x371733888d3a89dd3b448b98b4a2aed0 2/7/2010 4:17:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 44 KB
6 Status 0x188f6bf0a175bbfc1d9f9acb020716c4 2/2/2010 11:53:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 44 KB
7 Status 0xff685f01b1494cab384c1d760245ce18 9/27/2009 2:18:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 52 KB
8 Status 0xbf3332a7479297494378815570fa2bcf 8/18/2009 9:57:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 44 KB
9 Status 0x08aba6248075814fa77437cecc0e3bc6 8/12/2009 6:35:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 44 KB
10 Status 0xb570bf7a9cc026317735a6e6359f5ccd 5/25/2009 1:55:00 PM Unknown 1.002 Brother printer 44 KB
11 Status 0x895127404b1a32e70c62e8e7247282a4 5/8/2009 8:34:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
12 Status 0x1fdb3b3413a215a6375659b1215f2a84 5/2/2009 11:13:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
13 Status 0x341da65408daa5ecb68d25d5cf525bec 4/30/2009 1:29:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
14 Status 0x77f9fb03c95e9360a9e312b7dd72b0e7 3/16/2009 12:03:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
15 Status 0x8a5c6ca40204b12a07f4a07d379f8451 2/22/2009 12:16:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
16 Status 0xb9fb278001173658f995c2ac454276f7 2/8/2009 5:04:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
17 Status 0xee49af96ef9750e00c78d8dea025bd78 2/5/2009 4:02:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
18 Status 0xed5a6c737c74db006f23e7292a3ff48a 2/2/2009 5:40:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
19 Status 0x83addc857ce9170c5c2db574bdf0e790 2/2/2009 12:32:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 64 KB
20 Status 0xd5eca60589fe7d8d52f1f94ea9729885 7/14/2008 1:38:00 PM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 56 KB
21 Status 0x5c410f32c0234cab6daf42402c07a222 4/5/2008 11:57:00 AM Unknown Unknown Brother printer 52 KB
22 Status 0x73a66ddd75069a9c7d93dec28682d39a 12/31/2007 Unknown 1.004 Brother printer 44 KB


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