What is ucguard.sys?

ucguard.sys is part of Huorong Network Security and developed by Huorong Borui (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd. according to the ucguard.sys version information.

ucguard.sys's description is "Huorong Network Security Core Kext"

ucguard.sys is digitally signed by TAOBAO (CHINA) SOFTWARE CO.,LTD..

ucguard.sys is usually located in the 'C:\Windows\system32\drivers\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about ucguard.sys.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on ucguard.sys:

PropertyValue
Product nameHuorong Network Security
Company nameHuorong Borui (Beijing) Technology Co., Ltd.
File descriptionHuorong Network Security Core Kext
Internal namesysdiag
Original filenamesysdiag.sys
Legal copyrightHuorong Security Lab.
Product version1, 100, 0, 0
File version0, 1, 0, 83

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameHuorong Network Security
Company nameHuorong Borui (Beijing) Technology C..
File descriptionHuorong Network Security Core Kext
Internal namesysdiag
Original filenamesysdiag.sys
Legal copyrightHuorong Security Lab.
Product version1, 100, 0, 0
File version0, 1, 0, 83

Digital signatures [?]

ucguard.sys has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameTAOBAO (CHINA) SOFTWARE CO.,LTD.
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number348a4d46c9a1a9edc2b4818465a66bed

VirusTotal report

None of the 55 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the ucguard.sys file.

None of the 55 anti-virus programs detected the ucguard.sys file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5528703a7ef675f91035e2b516c29cf5d
SHA2567c14dd6ef31b08e5c9e25370bb938b92bb8eb01534ce53caa0a1d62ccb45e3a3

What will you do with ucguard.sys?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with ucguard.sys. 98% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 404 users.

User vote results: There were 397 votes to remove and 7 votes to keep

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with ucguard.sys.

Malware or legitimate?

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Dimitriy writes

1 thumb

On my laptop programa AdwCleaner found that UCguard - UTB malware service .

# 22 Aug 2016, 11:00

junji writes

0 thumbs

@Dimitry AdwCleaner was not able to remove UCguard on my PC, I will try free fixer and see if it works

# 3 Dec 2016, 17:13

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

@junji: Any success with removing the file?

I tried to find more info about ucguard.sys, but could not find any reliable source. Do you have any idea what it does?

It seems to come up clean in the VirusTotal scan.

# 6 Dec 2016, 11:57

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