MCAUTO~1.EXE

by McAfee/Trellix
Endpoint Security

Summary

McAfee Auto Update (8.3 truncated) - McAfee automatic update component.

MCAUTO~1.EXE is the 644th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 6,550 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\....

644th
most commonly executed Windows program
6,550
observed executions
low
statistical confidence

Behavior

Top Paths

  • C:\...100%

Top Hashes (SHA256)

  • f6fdd79ec96e3aed738c344b4bc0ed409028a9217f45f475d73da73c3e000ffc90.08%
  • 3f68d4c9a1a7397467a2264fb2f0daa6a1f5f569172a1f2b0f8b08a340157a2f9.92%

Process Ancestry

Top Grandparents

Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.

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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.