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apoint.exe file information

The process Alps Pointing-device Driver belongs to the software Alps Pointing-device Driver or ALPS Touch Pad Driver or SereneScene Marine Aquarium or Apoint.exe or IDAutomation.com Linear or PDFCreator or Brave Soul or Remote Administrator v2.1 KWC or Acoustica Effects Pack or MapSource or Able2Extract Professional v or Alps Pointing-device for VAIO or Dell Touchpad or Security Task Manager 1.7e or VGA Dual Camera or ThinkPad UltraNav Driver or Admiral Quality Poly-Ana VSTi or Adobe AIR by Alps Electric Co., Ltd (www.alps.com).

Description: apoint.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files" - mostly C:\Program Files\Apoint\. Known file sizes on Windows XP are 155,648 bytes (18% of all occurrence), 159,744 bytes, 114,688 bytes, 143,360 bytes, 118,784 bytes, 192,512 bytes, 176,128 bytes, 196,608 bytes, 122,880 bytes, 131,072 bytes, 151,552 bytes, 147,456 bytes, 163,840 bytes, 14,348 bytes, 126,976 bytes, 135,168 bytes, 172,032 bytes, 24,076 bytes, 37,388 bytes, 98,304 bytes, 31,730 bytes, 25,600 bytes, 24,592 bytes, 34,304 bytes, 30,102 bytes, 28,172 bytes, 23,564 bytes, 186,880 bytes, 203,035 bytes, 167,936 bytes, 16,897 bytes, 26,954 bytes, 24,080 bytes.
It is not a Windows system file. It is a trustworthy file from Microsoft. The application is loaded during the Windows boot process (see Registry key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer\User Shell Folders, HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run). The program has no visible window. apoint.exe is able to record inputs, monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 35% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.

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External information from Paul Collins:

• "AlpsPoint" can run at start up. Touchpad software for laptop PC's. For instance it is found on the Panasonic machines and allows part of the touchpad to be used for document or Web-page scrolling. Required for proper functioning of the pointing software but not required for the laptop to work

Important: Some malware camouflage themselves as apoint.exe, particularly if they are located in c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Thus check the apoint.exe process on your pc whether it is pest. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. It is one of the Top Download Picks of 2005 of The Washington Post and PC World.

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