The luall.exe process belongs to the Symantec LiveUpdate utility that maintains the user’s Symantec products up to date. The program is considered to be a non-essential process, though it is recommended that the application remain intact and not be terminated unless it is specifically causing the computer problems. The luall.exe process can be overwritten by some viruses, so it is essential to take precautions regarding this matter. Upon contracting a virus, this process can be uninstalled and re-installed within the computer system. This file is also a non-system process, meaning, the user him or herself installed the software within his computer system and is therefore up to him or her whether he or she desires to keep the process within the computer. The process is considered to be safe by users and unlikely to present any dangers to the user’s system. However, some precautions should be taken as there may be some possibility to contract malicious contents when operating the computer system.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Symantec LiveUpdate, 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 luall.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 luall.exe, belongs to, in this case Symantec LiveUpdate