The avwatchservice.exe file is the process called Preventon AV Watch Service that is part of the application Preventon AV Watch Service created by Preventon Technologies Limited. This process file is in the subfolder C:\Program Files\Common Files. Known sizes for avwatchservice.exe file are 204,760 bytes, 236,320 bytes, 142,768 bytes and 142,960 bytes with 42% occurrence. It is a hidden file. This process is not visible to the user. The avwatchservice.exe file has a digital signature by VeriSign. It is a non-system file for Windows. It can monitor programs. Preventon AV Watch Service version 1.5.76.0 with file size of 142,960 bytes has an MD5 of e365566c03874a25c0d9551a6eb3e9ac. SHA1 is 3d842a49847559f164b9c13d7168f62257bb6c5d. SHA 256 is 03484e8d4c72a19560283e285d97d40ddc19d71b280cdac3a058fae73ca78078. The directory of the file is %COMMONFILES%\Common Toolkit Suite\AVEngine. Preventon Antivirus offers anti-virus solutions against Trojans, worms, viruses and spyware for home computer users. It has a Game Mode that will prevent user games from being scanned.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. avwatchservice.exe. is used by Preventon AV Watch Service, If you shut down avwatchservice.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop avwatchservice.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Preventon AV Watch Service, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed avwatchservice.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Preventon AV Watch Service, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if avwatchservice.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that avwatchservice.exe, belongs to, in this case Preventon AV Watch Service