VSIXAutoUpdate.exe
by Microsoft
Development Tool
Summary
Visual Studio extension auto-updater
VSIXAutoUpdate.exe is the 1455th most commonly executed Windows program in EchoTrail's dataset, observed 788 times across enterprise environments. It typically runs from C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE and it is most often launched by svchost.exe.
1455th
most commonly executed Windows program
788
observed executions
low
statistical confidence
Behavior
Top Paths
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio 14.0\Common7\IDE87.56%
- C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\Installer\resources\app\ServiceHub\Services\Microsoft.VisualStudio.Setup.Service12.44%
Top Hashes (SHA256)
- 2c161a33b558796ae24d965731daa7e3cd238b21006a2e0c4b20f306bb38825b85.87%
- 7f7bb3f7237df2c419ae44861b6fa0564a9dfbfc8dd12063a1287d96ff97e58d10.91%
- 4faa9fd86046682e27619a1a42802066e03d296b5d689d7c2a0f8ccddb5a1e452.25%
- fb3f406cc1791afde914fee2ed179668280f05f781ff35e47434e623c5fe5f9d0.64%
- 3a477ddd6fec36f7d4332f2e01d16bc556435d21ad8b169d414184d75a67dfad0.16%
- c08179d93f7eddcae49110ec03a56bb04c863783b57332b86c7b269f5e8552eb0.16%
Process Ancestry
Top Grandparents
- services.exe95.49%
- svchost.exe4.51%
Top Parents
- svchost.exe94.04%
- taskeng.exe3.43%
Top Children
- conhost.exe91.93%
- getmac.exe0.41%
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.