pcdrcui.exe

[genej101]

I'm running Win 7 64bit Home Premium.  It came with PcDoctor installed on it.  I've had it for four months.  But, today, I got a warning from my software firewall about pcdrui.exe which it identified from its heuristics as potentially dangerous.  Can you tell me what that file is/does and whether it is or is not part of your program and safe to leave on my machine?  Thanks.

[fwilson]

genej101,

PCDRui.exe is the main Ui (User Interface) file for PC-Doctor.  It wouldn't work to well without it.

What security software is reporting this as "possibly dangerous"?

-Fred

[genej101]

genej101,

PCDRui.exe is the main Ui (User Interface) file for PC-Doctor.  It wouldn't work to well without it.

What security software is reporting this as "possibly dangerous"?

-Fred

Comodo Dragon is my software firewall.  No recent updates to it and I've never run PC Doctor at all, so the popup alert was a little disconcerting.  None of my other tools found any issues - Eset Nod antivirus, MalwareBytes and Spybot.  Comodo is outstanding though - it passes Steve Gibson's simulated attacks with a 100% rating everytime I've run that tast.  So I tend to trust it, but perhaps this instance was some sort of false positive.  It still thinks there is a threat, it is listed in the threat alert log. 

[fwilson]

genej101,

Well, nothing is 100% in the software world especially on the security side.  PC-Doctor is low level hardware diagnostic software,  maybe this is what Comodo thinks is "possibly dangerous".  This is odd since PC-Doctor is installed by manufacturers on literally millions of systems.  I would think they would have seen this before in testing.  Maybe an email to Comodo support is in order.

I would put pcdrui.exe on the ignore list and move on.

-Fred