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AdobeARM.exe
Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager by Adobe Systems (Signed)
| Version: | 1.4.7.0 |
| MD5: | bad6bea0de1f69c82bdb74378ce0c20a |
| SHA1: | aeb900d7599c7e0af6b4ec1d0c9b1423e60395bf |
| SHA256: | ada84b75173e9d03c180b527e31475aca16cb19532c3eda11357bd37049927e3 |
What is AdobeARM.exe?
AdobeARM.exe is a part of new Adobe Acrobat\Reader updater. The Updater is responsible for checking for, downloading, and launching the update installer for Reader or Acrobat. The Updater primarily keeps itself up to date and downloads and extracts needed files. It does not actually install anything, as that job is handled by a separate installer. Update preferences controlled at the registry level. Log settings controlled at the registry level; log name and location is different. Checks for upd
About AdobeARM.exe (from Adobe Systems)
“Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digita”
Details
| File name: | AdobeARM.exe |
| Publisher: | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
| Product name: | Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\adobearm.exe |
| File version: | 1.4.7.0 |
| Size: | 910.44 KB (932,288 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Adobe Systems |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, September 18, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, November 5, 2009 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.118272 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Acrobat and Reader are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Common File Installer installs a number of shared components between multiple Adobe programs. If you remove this program some features of other related programs might not function properly.
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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“Adobe Acrobat lets business professionals quickly and easily convert any Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, or other paper or electronic document to a reliable Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file. Adobe PDF files preserve the visual integrity of documents so that they can be e-mailed to colleagues and then viewed and printed on a variety of platforms using free Adobe Reader software. Acrobat 6.0 Standard software's intuitive rev...”
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Acrobat X (version 10.0) is an applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. It included "sandboxing" protection for Wind...
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Blue Car Technologies Limited |
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Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Adobe ARM' → "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\ARM\1.0\AdobeARM.exe"
Scheduled tasks
- The task 'Adobe online update program' runs weekly in the path '\Adobe online update program'
- Entry path '\Adobe online update program'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Adobe ARM'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.05294225% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02811276% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02482949% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 474 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 15 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 96,519/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.31 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.65 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.4 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.31 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 91.57 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 133.44 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.18 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 42.49 MB | |
| Page faults: | 19,572/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 232.23 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 10.29 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 811 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 70/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 250 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 22 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 27 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 28 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\adobearm.exe" /producC:reader /versioC:10.0 /modC:2
- "C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\adobearm.exe"
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
29.76% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
21.43% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
11.90% |
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| Windows 8 |
7.14% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
5.95% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.76% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
3.57% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
3.57% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
2.38% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.38% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.19% |
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| Windows Vista Ultimate |
1.19% |
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| Windows XP Professional |
1.19% |
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| Windows 8 Release Preview |
1.19% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
1.19% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.19% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 39.19% of Adobe Reader and Acrobat Manager.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
28.99% |
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| ASUS |
20.29% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
17.39% |
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| Acer |
10.14% |
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| Toshiba |
8.70% |
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| Sony |
8.70% |
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| GIGABYTE |
2.90% |
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| Intel |
2.90% |
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