Vanguard
What is Vanguard?
Vanguard is software application developed by Sony Online Entertainment. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 70.59% of installations running this operating system.
Vanguard is most popular in the United States with 82.11% of installations residing in this country.
Vanguard adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Vanguard is known to create 2 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
Software Behaviors
- Firewall:
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- LaunchPad.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\Dragon's Prophet\LaunchPad.exe'.
- Vanguard.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Sony\Vanguard\Vanguard.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- LaunchPad.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{098A1A94-81B4-4113-B9E4-90A8D01A1A84}' (runs on registration).
Software Details
- URL:
- https://www.soe.com
- Support:
- –
- Installation path:
- C:\games\vanguard
- Uninstaller:
- C:\Games\Vanguard\Uninstaller.exe
- Size:
- 0.00 B
- Language:
- English
Vanguard Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- uninstaller.exe
- Name:
- Vanguard
- Path:
- C:\games\vanguard\uninstaller.exe
- MD5:
- ae9ab97001948e2620d311da57dee45d
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –