Extension: exe

gearsec.exe

It is a driver for CD-RW, released by GEAR software and used by iTunes and some other software to providing support for burning CDs, and usually installed on Windows XP as a service. Its default location is "%SYSTEMROOT%\system32". On some machines, GEARSecurity can not be started up due to some uncertain compability problems.

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Information added: 2004-03-19 10:00:00
Information updated: 2012-02-07 13:46:53

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steper.

This stinks I install winxp sp2 to stay up to date install mcafee virus scan which I have always used, to stay up to date. And I get a message from gearsec.exe that it will close .... which has to do with go.. knows how many programs. Mcafee has always worked and is free should I switch?<br />
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2005 03 24

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