I went to grab some coffee, and when I came back this app was on my taskbar. No UI comes up when I click it, but I have no idea what it is. It's called CUI.exe, and googling that just gives me a bunch of those "dll info" sites that basically tell me it's an executable, then helpfully tell me what an executable is. Yay. It does sound like it's part of Windows though...
So, does anyone know what this is? Why it would just pop up on the taskbar? Is it safe to kill?
2 Answers
I just had the same thing appear on my Windows 7 taskbar. I am using Symantec Endpoint Protection v14 build 3897 (14.0.3897.1101) and closing the cui.exe did not close or disable SEP. I have no information about which SEP function uses cui.exe or why it would get stuck on the taskbar, but there appears to be no harm in closing it.
I found this record here. It appears to be safe:
This executable is part of the Endpoint Agent for Endpoint Protection suite from Symantec Corporation - antivirus and protection application for PCs and VMwares, check more info on
