What is GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe? Is GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe spyware or a virus?

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Process name: Google Desktop

Product: Google Desktop or Google Desktop Search or Acoustica Effects Pack or Google デスクトップ or OmniPage SE

Company: Google (toolbar.google.com)

File: GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe


This is an indexing component of the Google Desktop Search program, a free utility that lets you use Google's search technology to locate items on your own computer. This process runs in the background and is responsible for crawling through your system's directory structure to find files for indexing. This lets Desktop Search find them efficiently (without an index, each search could take hours.) See also: GoogleDesktopIndex.exe.http://www.neuber.com/taskmanager/process/googledesktopcrawl.exe.html 

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Users Opinions

Average user rating of GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe: 4 based on 25 votes. Read also the 18 reviews.

503 users ask for this file. 14 users rated it as not dangerous. 2 users rated it as not so dangerous. 5 users rated it as neutral. 2 users rated it as little bit dangerous. 2 users rated it as dangerous. 3 users didn't rate it ("don't know").


All comments about GoogleDesktopCrawl.exe:
rate0 if its from google, i'd expect it to be adware free just type it in google, they explain what it does   Sophia
rate1 Google Desktop Search  See also: Link  
rate1 It's the crawler file for Google Desktop Search. It's used to index files on your harddrive.  See also: Link   Zimbo
rate1 Part of the Google Desktop Search Utility  See also: Link   DarkFlib
rate1 Easily search your hdd using google technology.  See also: Link   Vec
rate3 Part of the Google Desktop Search Utility. Check the personal preference settings to see what items are being indexed and adjust accordingly.   bradbell
rate1 Google desktop process. Takes 99% of CPU ressources...   Sebry
rate4 it tries to connect to msnusers.com... It can't be good if it tries to contact to some server like that...   anonymous
rate1 it took up all my resources when google indexing was paused but when it restarted it stoped.   nick
rate3 I've been using this for several months since I installed GoogleDesktop2 Sidebar (it's a Google plug-in from Google.com). It has been found useful & harmless (as per Norton & AVG & Ad-Aware & Spybot & more). Today I'm getting recurring error saying python23.dll file is missing so need to reinstall app to fix problem.  See also: Link   A. Mason
rate4 I have a screen popping up that looks fishy, asking for my .Net passport signon. I traced it back to this program as the running process associated with the window. The screen looks like a hoax to me. I'm deleting it., and getting information from Google on the proper file size, etc from this process.   Mark
rate3 Slows desktop to a crawl. Aptly named.  
rate3 it is trying to connect to crl.microsoft.com ip:131.107.115.28   Someone
rate3 Itエs the indexation part of google Desktop. Itエs not dangerous but... he consumes 90-98% CPUエs memory and turns your others processes very... but very slow   Maiky
rate0 It takes 99% of my CPU's ressources too and I sent 2 mails to google about that but they haven't answer yet...   Fab
rate5 win 32 Troian   coyac nicolae
rate1 Google desktop search   H2O
rate0 something appear on ma screen saying that googledesktopcrawl.exe has stopped working  

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