The file scanstub.exe belongs to software Norton 360 from Symantec Corporation. The application is an all-in-one security suite that is described Version-Less since automatic updates keep the software to its latest version. This application offers protection on social networks, protection against social engineering attacks, and provides users with a bolstered firewall. During the program's installation, the user is asked to participate in a data submission project from Symantec, by interacting with the behavior-based detection engine from Norton called Quorum. Non-participation by the user will not affect the performance of the application. In addition to the firewall, Norton 360 contains an anti-virus, a phishing protection program, stronger network defenses and anti-scam capabilities, a backup program and PC maintenance capabilities. The backup/ restore tools and PC tune-up tools differentiates Norton 360 from Norton Internet Security and Norton Antivirus software. The tune-up tools include registry cleaning, hard drive cleaning, Windows startup tweaks, and on the fly RAM management.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. scanstub.exe. is used by Norton 360, If you shut down scanstub.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop scanstub.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Norton 360, 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 scanstub.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Norton 360, 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 scanstub.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 scanstub.exe, belongs to, in this case Norton 360