TBNotifier.exe
Ask TBNotifier by APN LLC (Signed)
| Version: | 31.2.0.1139 |
| MD5: | b36b02c079f5bb841cc2ccb896072dd4 |
| SHA1: | 3efa3170090965c4934dbc5ba529c38717004123 |
| SHA256: | 731511c5d4a12033597eb9508bcdea36d2dabfb68a4907a16ef0dd247b24e65e |
About TBNotifier.exe (from APN LLC)
“The Ask Toolbar Notifier is a client process which runs as part of the Ask Toolbar. The Notifier's job is to help instruct you during the toolbar installation and browser upgrades on your computer.”
Overview
tbnotifier.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Ask Toolbar published by Ask.com, Ask Shopping Toolbar from Ask.com and Ask Shopping Toolbar by Ask.com. The file is digitally signed by APN LLC which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | tbnotifier.exe |
| Publisher: | APN |
| Product name: | Ask TBNotifier |
| Description: | Ask Toolbar Notifier |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater\tbnotifier.exe |
| File version: | 31.2.0.1139 |
| Size: | 1.53 MB (1,601,488 bytes) |
| Build date: | 7/24/2013 10:01 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | APN LLC |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, April 16, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 9, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'ApnTBMon' → "C:\Program Files\AskPartnerNetwork\Toolbar\Updater\TBNotifier.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00400203% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00265204% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00134999% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 3,263 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 8.53 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.79 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.65 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 8.53 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 116.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 125.6 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.54 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 13.84 MB | |
| Page faults: | 18,470/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 119 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 21 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 65 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 18 | |
| Handles: | 405 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 10 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 19 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 17 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| TBNotifier.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00206918% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00134689% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00072228% | |
| CPU cycles: | 38,279/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.55 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002717% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001630% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001087% | |
| CPU cycles: | 922/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
28.30% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
15.09% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
13.21% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
9.43% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
9.43% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
9.43% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
5.66% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.77% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.89% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.89% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.89% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 36.54% of Ask TBNotifier.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
22.22% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
19.44% |
|
| ASUS |
19.44% |
|
| Acer |
8.33% |
|
| Lenovo |
5.56% |
|
| Intel |
5.56% |
|
| Sony |
5.56% |
|
| Toshiba |
5.56% |
|
| Alienware |
2.78% |
|
| MSI |
2.78% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.39% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.39% |
|
