You have clicked on "VSCore Announcer" that belongs to "VSCORE.14.1.0.515.x86" made by "McAfee, Inc." Measures you can take regarding this program: Click this button to terminate the program. The program will be stopped and the system tray icon will disappear. Click this button to uninstall the program. The program will be removed from your computer following the proper uninstallation procedure. Click this button to remove this program from startup, so it will NOT get started every time you turn on your computer. Description extracted from Wikipedia:   Click here for more tehnical info Company Name McAfee, Inc. company_logo Founded 1987 Key people Michael DeCesare (Co-President) Todd Gebhart (Co-President) Industry Security software Home page http://home.mcafee.com/ McAfee, Inc. (icon|ˈ|m|æ|k|ə|f|iː) is an American global computer security software company headquartered in Santa Clara, California, and the world's largest dedicated security technology company. As of February 28, 2011, McAfee is a wholly owned subsidiary of Intel. McAfee's competitors in the antivirus industry are Avira, BullGuard, F-Secure, Frisk, Kaspersky, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro to name a few. Technical information: Click here for description Icon status No tray icon Icon setting Not in the system tray Executable file C:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan Enterprise\mfeann.exe Version VSCORE.14.1.0.515.x86 Parent process C:\Program Files\McAfee\VirusScan Enterprise\Mcshield.exe Can be uninstalled Yes Encrypted No Size on disk 27.3 Kb Minimum recorded memory usage 64 Kb Average recorded memory usage 5 Mb Maximum recorded memory usage 5.2 Mb Date when maximum memory usage occured 24-10-2011 07:05:03 Minimum recorded CPU usage 0% Average recorded CPU usage 0% Maximum recorded CPU usage 50% Date when maximum CPU usage occured 30-01-2012 08:13:42 Started at 23-02-2012 08:02:30 Total CPU time 0 seconds Imported functions [+] Imported from RPCRT4.dll [-] Imported from RPCRT4.dll RpcStringBindingComposeW RpcBindingFree RpcServerListen RpcBindingFromStringBindingW RpcServerUseProtseqEpW RpcStringFreeW RpcServerRegisterIf NdrClientCall2 RpcBindingSetAuthInfoExW NdrServerCall2 [+] Imported from LockDown.dll [-] Imported from LockDown.dll LockDownProtectProcessById [+] Imported from msvcrt.dll [-] Imported from msvcrt.dll _controlfp ?terminate@@YAXXZ _onexit _lock __dllonexit _unlock __set_app_type __p__fmode __p__commode _adjust_fdiv __setusermatherr _amsg_exit _initterm exit _XcptFilter _exit _cexit __wgetmainargs free malloc _purecall memcpy memset _wtoi _wcsdup wcscpy wcsrchr wcscat _snwprintf [+] Imported from KERNEL32.dll [-] Imported from KERNEL32.dll GetModuleFileNameW FindClose LoadLibraryW SetEvent SetProcessWorkingSetSize FindFirstFileW UnmapViewOfFile WaitForMultipleObjects Sleep CloseHandle OpenEventW CreateEventW GetProcAddress FreeLibrary OpenFileMappingW MapViewOfFile GetCurrentProcess GetSystemDirectoryW GetSystemTimeAsFileTime GetCurrentThreadId GetTickCount QueryPerformanceCounter GetModuleHandleA SetUnhandledExceptionFilter UnhandledExceptionFilter TerminateProcess InterlockedCompareExchange RtlUnwind LeaveCriticalSection EnterCriticalSection DeleteCriticalSection InitializeCriticalSection InterlockedExchange GetVersionExW LoadLibraryA InterlockedIncrement GetCurrentProcessId OpenProcess GetLastError [+] Imported from ADVAPI32.dll [-] Imported from ADVAPI32.dll GetLengthSid IsValidSid [+] Imported from ole32.dll [-] Imported from ole32.dll CoInitializeEx Some relevant texts from the exe file [+] Click here for more details [-] Click here to hide details http://www.mcafee.com 0 http://ocsp.verisign.com0? https://www.verisign.com/rpa0 /http://CSC3-2004-crl.verisign.com/CSC3-2004.crl0D http://crl.verisign.com/pca3.crl0 https://www.verisign.com/rpa01 0http://crl.verisign.com/ThawteTimestampingCA.crl0 http://ocsp.verisign.com0 http://crl.verisign.com/tss-ca.crl0 !This program cannot be run in DOS mode. GetInterface GetAnnVersion UserDefinedDetection_ @mfeann: NaiAnnScanFileHelper mfeann: NaiAnnScanRegObjHelper mfeann: FatalCleanUpHelper Shared memory: OpenFileMapping failed Shared memory: MapViewOfFile failed OAS_STATISTICS mfeann.exe: RPC_MakeAnnouncer: library loaded mfeann.exe: RPC_MakeAnnouncer: library load failed naiann.dll mfeann.exe: RPC_MakeAnnouncer mfeann: RPC_AnnouncerAddRef mfeann: RPC_ScannerIsDisabling mfeann: RPC_ScannerIsEnabling mfeann: RPC_APRuleFileError mfeann: RPC_SettingsChanged mfeann: RPC_UpdateEngineInfo mfeann: RPC_NewInfection mfeann.exe: Stopping, unknown reason mfeann.exe: Stopping because no mcshield mfeann.exe: Stopping normally Global\MfeAnnProcessStarted mfeann.exe: Ready mcshield_endpoint StopAnnouncerEvent mfeann.exe: InitialiseServer mfeann_endpoint mfeann.exe: McAfeeAnnouncer constructed mfeann.exe: Bad value for McShield process id: mfeann.exe: McShield process handle mfeann.exe: McShield process ID mfeann.exe: started RtlDumpResource RtlReleaseResource RtlAcquireResourceShared RtlAcquireResourceExclusive RtlDeleteResource RtlInitializeResource traceexports1 traceapp.dll \traceapp.dll D:\VSCORE3\BUILD\VSCore\release\mfeann.pdb NdrClientCall2 RPCRT4.dll LockDownProtectProcessById LockDown.dll msvcrt.dll __wgetmainargs _amsg_exit __setusermatherr _adjust_fdiv __dllonexit ?terminate@@YAXXZ GetLastError MapViewOfFile OpenFileMappingW FreeLibrary GetProcAddress LoadLibraryW SetProcessWorkingSetSize GetCurrentProcess UnmapViewOfFile WaitForMultipleObjects CloseHandle GetCurrentProcessId InterlockedIncrement LoadLibraryA GetVersionExW InterlockedExchange InitializeCriticalSection DeleteCriticalSection EnterCriticalSection LeaveCriticalSection InterlockedCompareExchange TerminateProcess UnhandledExceptionFilter SetUnhandledExceptionFilter GetModuleHandleA QueryPerformanceCounter GetTickCount GetCurrentThreadId GetSystemTimeAsFileTime KERNEL32.dll ADVAPI32.dll CoInitializeEx RpcBindingSetAuthInfoExW RpcStringBindingComposeW RpcServerUseProtseqEpW GetModuleFileNameW GetSystemDirectoryW VS_VERSION_INFO StringFileInfo FileVersion FileDescription VSCore Announcer PrivateBuild ProductName CompanyName McAfee, Inc. LegalCopyright 1995-2009 McAfee, Inc. All Rights Reserved. VarFileInfo Translation VeriSign Time Stamping Services CA0 +VeriSign Time Stamping Services Signer - G20 Durbanville1 Thawte Certification1 Thawte Timestamping CA0 .Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority0 VeriSign Trust Network1;09 VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA0 .Class 3 Public Primary Certification Authority California1 McAfee, Inc.1>0< McAfee, Inc.0 Washington1 Microsoft Corporation1)0 Microsoft Code Verification Root0 VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2004 CA McAfee, Inc VeriSign Time Stamping Services CA