Process name: Norton AntiVirus Definition Watcher
Product: Norton AntiVirus
Company: Symantec Corporation
File: defwatch.exe
Security Rating: 1
"defwatch.exe" is part of Norton AntiVirus from Symantec Corporation. It detects out-of-date virus definitions for Norton Anti-Virus software. Required only if you don't update the virus definitions manually on a regular basis.
Get more detailed information about defwatch.exe and all other running background processes with Security Task Manager.
Note: Any malware can be named anything - so you should check where the files of the running processes are located on your disk. If a "non-Microsoft" .exe file is located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder, then there is a high risk for a virus, spyware, trojan or worm infection! Check it out!
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461 users ask for this file. 1 user didn't rate it ("don't know"). 31 users rated it as not dangerous. 3 users rated it as not so dangerous. 4 users rated it as dangerous.
