• Properties:

• System Process: No
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  C:\ Windows\ Program Files\ Network Associates\ Common Framework\ UpdaterUI.exe
• Uses Network:No
• Uses Internet:Yes

Description:

The Updater UI is an application that was designed for McAfee Software. Its executable file is the process updaterui.exe. When the McAfee anti Virus software program is running in the computer system, there is an automatic updater turned on the computer for continuous updating of the virus definition files of the Software application. The updaterui.exe file is required to acquire the definitions of latest virus definitions from the Internet. This comes pre-installed with the software McAfee Enterprise.

Since the main purpose for the process updaterui.exe is for the updating of McAfee Antivirus, termination of this process cannot assure the continuous protection from the present and continuously developing viruses the computer is exposed to, especially with exchange of data with other users through the Internet.

The anti virus program McAfee Enterprise considers updating of the database of malicious processes an essential means to properly processing and developing security measures against virus threats that may infiltrate the system. Without the updaterui.exe executable file in the McAfee Enterprise, its proper functionality and ability for viruses to be held back from entering the system of the computer cannot be achieved since it does not know when a highly new developed virus is trying to get into the users computer machine through the Internet connection or by data transfer.

The updates obtained by the updaterui.exe file are taken from the main database of McAfee or Network Associates, Inc., which is the company that developed the updaterui.exe process and McAfee Enterprise. The updaterui.exe executable process is present on all the software programs developed by McAfee or Network Associates, Inc.

Recommendations:

This is a safe process. There is no necessity to remove this process from your system or change it in any way.