According to what I find on Google, instup.exe is an Avast thing. I’m catching it hogging my CPU at times, and I don’t even have Avast installed. (I’ve never had it, mainly due to the troubles some friends had with it. I started on Norton, then went over to AVG free with ZA for firewall, and there I’ve stayed.) I can’t remember if Avast was on this machine when I brought it into service (it shouldn’t have been, as the machine had been wiped and XP installed afresh), but if it was I would have uninstalled it. I’m on XP on this machine, with AVG free, ZA free, Firefox 50.0.0, Spybot SD, and WinPatrol. XP is because I use some software that won’t run on later, but I have other machines with Windows 7 because I also have software that won’t run on earlier than 7. I can’t find on Google an association between instup.exe and AVG, but there are Avast type names in the AVG stuff on the HD. Anyone got any ideas?
instup is just a general name used by many software developers.
The location of it could tell to what software it belongs.
Looking at the properties of the file might also help.
True! instup.exe is an Avast setup file, as Eddy mentioned you will have to identify the location of the file to confirm it, I think winpatrol used to have an installer with that name also :-\ task manager should point you to the location if it’s running.
My guess is that now AVG is owned by Avast and compiled with some of it’s components then this may just simply be an updated installer file name :-\
Just checked and AVG doesn’t have a instup.exe
another way is to upload instup.exe to www.virustotal.com and scan it
Then use the additional tabs to find additional file info. Under the files tab you usually find info about who made it, file version, digitally signed, who signed …
Instup.exe is in C:/Program Files/AVG/Antivirus/Setup, and in C:/Program Files/AVG/resources are two WOFF files and two CSS files whose names contain ‘avasticon’. I wasn’t aware that Avast had taken over AVG.
Yes, some of the new features in AVG come from Avast.
Avast will also see some of the AVG features.
I did a fresh installation of the latest avg and there is no Instup.exe