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Mghtml.exe is part of one of McAfee's anti-virus tools. It's often a target of virus attacks.
What is mghtml.exe?
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It's apparently part of one of McAfee's anti-virus or security tools. It's targeted and killed by several viruses in order to make it difficult to repair or perform an anti-virus scan.
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June 23, 2006 5:22 PM
I've just recently formated a drive, installed XP, installed various programs from disk, including the McAffe Virus App. I generally look over my processes from time to time and noticed mghtml.exe, which is what led me here. I would say it's McAffe and legit unless it managed to find its way into my system before ever having access to the net.
Cheers,
R
August 13, 2006 12:43 AM
mghtml.exe is the html dialog program of mcafee. Without this running you will not have the security center interface working properly. High memory usage does not always mean a trojan! It does use high memory but it's a must for the application.
I wonder how this discussion even started with mcafee support trying to kill this application.
September 8, 2006 1:10 PM
Yeah mghtml.exe runs from McAfee on Automatic Scan Settings. You know your once a week job when you cannot be bothered to do a manual scan.Top of the tree in my Task Manager Processes when it kicks off. High CPU. Learn to live with that. It does the trick (I Think?)I agree with the poster about the other (junk we have running on Start up etc.) Computer housekeeping means a lot more awareness these days thats why it's a good idea to check processes that come alive soon as you hit the internet. Check the forums as well...
November 1, 2006 12:21 AM
Yes mghtml does use up a lot of cpu but i've noticed this only durring system scanning. Maybe you guys have mcafee scanning your entire system in the background when you start up your computer. The default setting is McAfee scans all files,folders even subfolders and also compressed files.
March 18, 2008 1:01 PM
mghtml.exe is the program that runs when you are running the McAfee virus scan. I guess it could become infected, but when you do a virus scan, this is the exe that runs. Delete it and te virus scan won't run.
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