What is Embassy Security Center autoupdate.exe?

I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. Included with the pre-installed
software is "Embassy Security Center" in the Program Group "Wave
Systems Corp". I'm not sure what Embassy Security Center is, and as
far as I know I do not use it. I clicked on "Document Manager" once,
just to see what it is, and got a message saying that the "security
chip appears to be disabled". Anyway, my question here is about the
file autoupdate.exe. At Windows startup, autoupdate.exe runs from c:
\program files\wave systems corp\services manager\secure update
\autoupdate.exe. What is this autoupdate file? Does it need to run at
Windows startup? Thank you.

Hi!

The Embassy program appears to manage the Trusted Platform Module
(TPM) IC that may be in your computer.

(Guess what the first hit on a Google search is for "Embassy Security
Center"?)

What is this autoupdate file? Does it need to run at
Windows startup? Thank you.

Most likely "no".

It's an automatic updating routine of some sort, probably used to
update the components of the Embassy Security Center. If you don't use
the program, it should be perfectly safe to disable the automatic
updater or even uninstall the program completely.

If you're really not sure (and can't find a way to be sure) whether or
not you have used the program, it may be best to leave it alone.

William

"francis_tzf" wrote in message
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I have a Dell Latitude D620 laptop. Included with the pre-installed
software is "Embassy Security Center" in the Program Group "Wave
Systems Corp". I'm not sure what Embassy Security Center is, and as
far as I know I do not use it. I clicked on "Document Manager" once,
just to see what it is, and got a message saying that the "security
chip appears to be disabled". Anyway, my question here is about the
file autoupdate.exe. At Windows startup, autoupdate.exe runs from c:
\program files\wave systems corp\services manager\secure update
\autoupdate.exe. What is this autoupdate file? Does it need to run at
Windows startup? Thank you.



It's a TPM security software. More info he
http://www.wave.com/products/esc.asp

You can disable it from Windows startup since you're obviously not using the
feature.

-Stew

Thank you both. Having now read about TPM security software, I am
confident I am not using it. So, I will disable it from Windows
startup. Thanks!