CCC.exe is not a virus? What is the role of the CCC.exe process?

What is the role of the CCC.exe process?

Ccc.exe is a program in ATI Video Graphics control Center (Amd-ati's Catalyst Control Center (1)), which we can use to implement some of the settings for the graphics card.
Notebook if it is an ATI video card upgrade the appropriate driver will occur after this problem (I am using the Vista operating system, online upgrade graphics driver). This program is not a required program. If it causes instability to your computer system, you can delete it.
Manufacturer: ATI Technologies Inc.
Source: Catalyst Control Centre
Security Level (0-5): N/A
Spyware: N/A
Virus: N/A
Trojan Horse: N/A
Memory usage: N/A
System process: N/A
Background process: No
Network use: N/A
Hardware Related: N/a
Common Ccc.exe errors:n/a
Ccc.exe is a Catalyst control centre:host application from ATI Technologies Inc. belonging to Catalyst control Centre

The CCC.exe process program file is an integral part of the feature Setup program defined by amd® for the AMD graphics products that it publishes, known as the Catalyst Control center:host application (i.e., the Catalyst Controlling Center host application). Its function is to the AMD graphics card for various display effects, graphics output settings, this program is generally AMD took a strange name: Catalyst (Catalyst control Center). And the CCC.exe process is part of this program, and to implement the settings for the video card, the program must run.

What's the relationship between CCC.exe and MOM.exe? Often we find that they appear in the Task manager at the same time. If you had seen my previous article, "What is the MOM.exe process?" Will know, the original AMD Catalyst this whole program to achieve the graphics card "catalytic" the full function of the need for another name MOM.exe program support, they are indispensable. If one is banned individually, then another is equivalent to a serious disability. You can try, after terminating the CCC.exe, the icon in the lower-right corner of your computer disappears (as shown below), and the icon does not disappear after terminating the MOM.exe, but it fails to open the Settings window. (Broaden reading: What is the process of svchost.exe?) ）

What does CCC.exe have to do with ATI? In fact, the previous AMD is not to do graphics products, and later it acquired the ATI this well-known graphics card manufacturers. AMD acquired after a period of time still retain ATI as a card brand exists, but later AMD gave up the name of ATI and its own AMD name, so there are still many people say CCC.exe is the driver of ATI graphics cards. This sentence is not only wrong in the already no ATI, and CCC.exe is actually not a graphics driver, it is just a set up the graphics card program (that is, "catalyst"). It has no direct relationship with the graphics driver.

CCC.exe is not a virus?

Because CCC.exe virus is currently updated virus database can kill the soft, now this article to a netizen's killing experience as an example, teach everyone to clear the virus, this method is simpler, hope to help everyone.
Software Repair
Run Msconfig, or prevent two startup items by optimizing tools such as Qihoo 360,vistamanager:
StartCCC.exe (C:\Program Files\ati technologies\ati.ace\core-static\clistart.exe)
Ccc.lnk (C:\Users\Jon\AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\programs\startup\ccc.lnk)
At the same time, I optimized the right-click shortcut menu and removed the menu items from the ATI Quick Start Control center.