How to remove an CCC error

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CCC.exe file information

The process known as Catalyst Control Centre: Host application or Catalyst Control Center: Host application belongs to software Catalyst Control Centre or Catalyst Control Center - Branding or Catalyst Control Center or AMD VISION Engine Control Center by ATI Technologies (www.ati.com).

Description: CCC.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 49,152 bytes (65% of all occurrences), 65,536 bytes or 299,008 bytes.
The file is not a Windows system file. You can uninstall this program in the control panel. The program is not visible. CCC.exe seems to be a compressed file. Therefore the technical security rating is 20% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
If problems with CCC.exe occur, you can also do the following:

go to the support area of the AMD website
update the program
uninstall the software Catalyst Control Center using the "Add or Remove Programs" function of Windows Control Panel (Windows: Start, Settings, Control Panel, Add or Remove Programs)

Recommended: Identify CCC.exe related errors

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as CCC.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the CCC.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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User Comments

ATI Catalyst Control Center
Skyrames

CCC -- Catalyst Control Center / ATI Treiber
Birgit F.

It causes my laptop to stall during closedown,but eventually it shuts down
Russell Hill

this is not malware process! Part of Catalyst Control Center. DO NOT DELETE.
Siqd Kahul (further information)

It's the control suite for your ATI graphics card. It is installed with your ATI graphic driver.
MrX

This is for your ATI video card.
Ralph

Its driver for RADEON 4770 graphics. Control system.
Leif, swden (further information)

when computer unattended, this consumes about goes from about 15% cpu to about 50%+ cpu every 3 seconds. when using my computer it stops running
SteveG

Catalyst control centre ATI program
Luc (further information)

If it uses too much CPU, try disabling catalyst AI
Bryce98

ATI Stuff
Xaya

Chinese Computer Cracker
Mikado

Catalyst Control Center from ATI Graphic Card
Tom

its a spyware
papa (further information)

It keeps asking permission to access the internet, we have ATI installed, understand it may or may not be malware
Not sure yet, thanks for the info

Summary: Average user rating of CCC.exe: based on 34 votes with 15 reviews.

14 users think CCC.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 9 users think it's probably harmless. 4 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users suspect danger. 5 users think CCC.exe is dangerous and recommend removing it. 4 users doesn't grade CCC.exe ("not sure about it").

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