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Thanks for your advice. I will follow it. Have a great holiday.
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Thanks for your advice. I will follow it. Have a great holiday.

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Thanks and good luck :)<br />

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My PC is an HP e9150t quad core machine using an Intel i7 CPU (920@2.67 GHz). I have 8 GB of RAM and am running Windows Vista Home Premium-64-Bit, Service Pack 2.<br />
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I had installed &quot;AnVir Task Manager&quot; a few weeks ago and after experiencing some weird fluctuations in CPU usage, I checked it out. What I found was a file &quot;atiesrxx.exe&quot; called AMD External Events Utility &nbsp;was listed with a 36 % security risk factor.<br />
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After reading numerous posts and Google, the general consensus seems to be to disable it, but I wanted to check with the experts here before I did anything. One of the things that I don't understand is the name indicates &quot;AMD&quot; and my processor is Intel. Is there any issue? Thanks for your help.<br />

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My PC is an HP e9150t quad core machine using an Intel i7 CPU (920@2.67 GHz). I have 8 GB of RAM and am running Windows Vista Home Premium-64-Bit, Service Pack 2.

I had installed "AnVir Task Manager" a few weeks ago and after experiencing some weird fluctuations in CPU usage, I checked it out. What I found was a file "atiesrxx.exe" called AMD External Events Utility  was listed with a 36 % security risk factor.

After reading numerous posts and Google, the general consensus seems to be to disable it, but I wanted to check with the experts here before I did anything. One of the things that I don't understand is the name indicates "AMD" and my processor is Intel. Is there any issue? Thanks for your help.


I Would like Some Clarification on the Purpose Of and Whether I Need AMD External Events Utility

System Utilities are a type of system software used to support the computer infrastructure, distinguishing it from application software which is aimed at directly performing tasks that benefit ordinary users. Commonly used utilities include password managers, disk managers, system monitors, data synchronization tools, security and antivirus software and editors.

System Utilities

Anti-virus software was originally developed to detect and remove computer viruses. However, with the proliferation of other kinds of malware, antivirus software started to provide protection from other computer threats. In particular, modern antivirus software can protect from malicious browser helper objects (BHOs), browser hijackers, ransomware, keyloggers, backdoors, rootkits, trojan horses, worms, malicious layered service providers (LSPs), dialers, fraud tools, adware and spyware. Some products also include protection from other computer threats, such as infected and malicious URLs, spam, scam and phishing attacks, online identity theft (privacy), online banking attacks, social engineering techniques, Advanced Persistent Threat (APT), botnets and DDoS attacks.