• Properties:

• System Process: No
• Background Process: Yes
• Application Process:Yes
• Common Path:
  c:\ windows\ system\ wcdvtray.exe
• Uses Network:No
• Uses Internet:Yes

Description:

The wcdvtray.exe process functions as a WebCamDV Tray Application. It enables WebCamDV to allow users to utilize their Digital Video (DV) camcorders efficiently as web cameras, or simply webcams. This wcdvtray.exe process enables the communication and interaction of the computer and the connected camcorder.

A camcorder offers its owner a portable electronic package that possesses a built-in recorder chip to record audio and video. The reason why this camcorder can be utilized as a webcamera is that it contains functionalities of a video camera and recorder. With the availability of the wcdvtray.exe file in the WebCamDV software, owners of camcorders can utilize their camcorders as a tool to easily gain and build a remote surveillance. This wcdvtray.exe process contains commands to remotely contact every record and playback functions of WebCamDV. It can also execute the zoom and focus capability of the camcorder from a remote location, as long as the users have a WebCamDV stored on the computers they are using.

The file wcdvtray.exe enables the WebCamDV software to act as plug-in application, where a camcorder owner can connect his/her camcorder to be used and be opened on the users available web camera application.

Because this wcdvtray.exe file writes the autorun registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \ SOFTWARE \ Microsoft \ Windows \ CurrentVersion \ Run OWCWebCamDV in the system registry, it can be loaded everytime Windows will boot up. It also has a unique C6EB1BF6E3235A19FEF60125C2B3873C MD5 hash to prove that this file is not an altered file. This wcdvtray.exe process also shares a high 1056768 bytes of physical memory that runs on computers that have recent versions of Microsoft Windows Operating System.

Recommendations:

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