updater.exe
Summary
Mozilla Firefox Software Updater manages automatic updates for the Firefox web browser.
updater.exe is the 91st most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 277,453 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files\mcafee\WebAdvisor and it is most often launched by updater.exe.
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files\mcafee\WebAdvisor34.41%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\130.0.6679.06.54%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\132.0.6833.06.5%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\128.0.6537.05.22%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\138.0.7194.04.23%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\127.0.6490.04.16%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\128.0.6597.03.69%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\135.0.7023.02.83%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\GoogleUpdater\131.0.6776.02.63%
- C:\ProgramData\...2.38%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 7f67129760223e5ddf31219f0b2e247555fbac85f4b6f933212ac091a21debf96.81%
- c294551059a85542127811249b8e725d3ab885efdd4996b201db588899769e856.76%
- 8de9266347276d18fe49f84b86f09e6035df2c10e39f22d85bf33d43cf0f5f2c5.43%
- 437295233c61d4097fc54bc8fc3e5d2ae176d445fe42bde97135d3db1749cf254.41%
- ebb428a4c1e29192617e7699513ec78512735110bba68bbee54dee34807094ae4.33%
- c2a7c0fa80f228c2ce599e4427280997ea9e1a3f85ed32e5d5e4219dfb05ddb23.84%
- e3eb70a25da3cf0563ebaa3b95622cad7423e447273bc7c779c7466f39eac7a22.94%
- 68cbbaa86f68ec0679a770e4cdf36233047c9672fa4a23cf62e1544934b47e4c2.76%
- 5dde29f028e75ee72f50902d20c41b699ef8fc5c294f04a321deac6909ffe4092.74%
- 323c097defb278f09a20aaca7b05aea20a1c859414cca9caea263fa5a627a1ae2.32%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- wininit.exe93.42%
- services.exe5.22%
- explorer.exe1.36%
Top Parents
- updater.exe31.24%
- services.exe20.72%
- svchost.exe10.38%
- LogiOptionsMgr.exe2.37%
- firefox.exe0.32%
- thunderbird.exe0.01%
- powershell.exe<0.01%
- backgroundTaskHost.exe<0.01%
- conhost.exe<0.01%
Top Children
- updater.exe92.71%
- cmd.exe5.56%
- conhost.exe0.36%
- regsvr32.exe0.32%
- helper.exe0.2%
- firefox.exe0.13%
- sc.exe0.07%
- setup.exe0.07%
- thunderbird.exe0.01%
Rare or environment-specific process names are omitted from ancestry tables. Percentages are of all observed relationships.
Security Analysis
What does updater.exe normally do?
Part of Mozilla software. Normal operation.
When is updater.exe suspicious?
Running from unexpected paths.
How do attackers abuse updater.exe?
Not commonly abused.
Detection guidance
No specific detection needed.
False positive notes
Normal Mozilla operation.
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Data from EchoTrail's dataset of ~346M Windows process executions. Last extracted 2026-08-04.