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12,8,958,0	12.50%
11,6,511,0	25.00%
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mcupdate.exe has 6 known versions, the most recent one is 12,8,958,0. mcupdate.exe is run as a standard windows process in the context of the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges. The average file size is about 972.98 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to McAfee by the certification authority VeriSign. This is a .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) assembly. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 5.15 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 9.52 MB and typical read I/O operations are around 30 Bytes per minute.

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