mpftray.exe

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Windows Process Description:

The process mpftray.exe is defined as McAfee Personal Firewall Tray Monitor. It belongs to the software McAfee Personal Firewall developed by McAfee, Inc., a leading anti-virus and network security company. McAfee was founded in 1987 and was named after its founder John McAfee. Formerly known as Network Associates, the company has developed a number of security tools for the Personal Computer, both for the corporate and home users.

The mpftray.exe application creates an icon on the system tray after installation. This icon automatically disables your Windows Firewall and sets itself as the default firewall. It then acts as the only firewall that protects your computer and provides adequate safety against intrusion. The program mpftray.exe can manage permissions for internet applications even Windows Firewall is running. If you subsequently run both firewalls on your computer, it might result in partial loss of logging in the mpftray.exe program as well as duplicate status and alert messaging.

The program mpftray.exe opens to four Summary pages when right clicked that contains a variety of reports on recent inbound events, application status and worldwide intrusion activity reported by HackerWatch.org. This includes the Main Summary, Application Summary, Event Summary, and HackerWatch Summary.

The file mpftray.exe is mainly located in a subfolder of C:/Program Files/McAfee.com/Personal Firewall/. The program displays a non-visible window. The mpftray.exe process loads with Windows upon startup and creates the following registry keys in the system registry: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Run.

The mpftray.exe file has known file sizes of 950272 bytes, 988712 bytes, 992808 bytes, 999424 bytes, 1003520 bytes, 1048576 bytes, 1187899 bytes, 1327104 bytes, 1343488 bytes and 1380352 bytes. The most common occurrence of mpftray.exe file is 1005096 bytes, which is 32% of its occurrence on Windows XP.

The program mpftray.exe has the ability to record inputs and monitor applications. It is non-essential to the Windows operating system because of the presence of its own firewall. If the application mpftray.exe is uninstalled, Windows Firewall is automatically re-enabled to ensure that your computer is protected by at least one firewall.

Author: McAfee, Inc..

Author URL: http://www.mcafee.com

Part Of: McAfee Personal Firewall

Memory Usage: Medium, it uses 1005096 bytes of physical RAM.

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