aupdate.exe Process Information

System Process:

No

Uses network:

Yes

Hardware related:

No

Background Process:

Yes

Spyware:

No

Trojan:

No

Virus:

No

Security risk 0-5:

0

What is aupdate exe?

aupdate.exe is the LiveUpdate process for Symantec Products. This process automatically checks online for the latest updates of your Symantec product and notifies you when new updates are available. This process should not be removed if you want to get informed about new updates.

Other instances of AUPDATE.EXE:

1) aupdate.exe is a process belonging to an advertising program. This process monitors your browsing habits and distributes the data back to the author's servers for analysis. This also prompts advertising popups. This process is a security risk and should be removed from your system.

Warning: Multiple instances of AUPDATE may be running on your pc at one time. Some of these may or may not be the legitimate versions.

Should You Remove aupdate exe?

If you are asking yourself if it is safe to remove aupdate.exe from your Windows system then it is understandable that it is causing trouble. aupdate.exe is not a critical component and a non-system process. Any process that is not managed by the system is known as non-system processes. It is safe to terminate the non-system process as they do not affect the general functionality of the operating system. However, the program using the non-system processes will be either terminated or halted.

Fix aupdate.exe Error?

There are many reasons why you are seeing aupdate.exe error in your Windows system including:

Malicious software

Malicious software infects the system with malware, keyloggers, spyware, and other malicious actors. They slow down the whole system and also cause .exe errors. This occurs because they modify the registry which is very important in the proper functioning of processes.

Incomplete installation

Another common reason behind aupdate.exe error is an incomplete installation. It can happen because of errors during installation, lack of hard disk space, and crash during install. This also leads to a corrupted registry causing the error.

Application conflicts and Missing or corrupt windows drivers can also lead to aupdate.exe error.

The solution to fixing aupdate.exe error include any one of the following

• Make sure your PC is protected with proper anti-virus software program.
• Run a registry cleaner to repair and remove the Windows registry that is causing aupdate.exe error.
• Make sure the system’s device drivers are updated properly.

It is also recommended that you run a performance scan to automatically optimize memory and CPU settings.

Is a aupdate.exe CPU intensive?

Windows process requires three resource types to function properly including CPU, Memory, and Network. CPU cycles to do computational tasks, memory to store information and network to communicate with the required services. If any of the resources are not available, it will either get interrupted or stopped.

Any given process has a process identification number(PID) associated with it. A user can easily identify and track a process using its PID. Task Manager is a great way to learn how much resources aupdate.exe process is allocating to itself. It showcases process resource usage in CPU/Memory/Disk and Network. If you have a GPU, it will also showcase the percentage of GPU it is using to run the process.

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