TosDIMonitor.exe
Toshiba Places Icon Utility by TOSHIBA CORPORATION (Signed)
Overview
There are 2 versions of tosdimonitor.exe in the wild, the latest version being 2.1.1.0. tosdimonitor.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows. The average file size is about 1.43 MB. The file is a digitally signed and issued to TOSHIBA CORPORATION by VeriSign. Numerous variations of tosdimonitor.exe have been installed with both TOSHIBA Places Icon Utility and TOSHIBA Face Recognition. The executable is a .NET framework assembly utilizing the CLR. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0028% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 55.09 MB.
 Details
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| File name: | tosdimonitor.exe |
| Publisher: | Toshiba |
| Product name: | Toshiba Places Icon Utility |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\toshiba\toshiba places icon utility\tosdimonitor.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | TOSHIBA CORPORATION |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, December 4, 2012 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Toshiba Places Icon Utility.)
“Toshiba Places Icon Utility is a simple application that was especially designed to provide Toshiba laptop users with a means of getting quick access to a variety of online content. Toshiba Places Ico...”
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Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of tosdimonitor.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'ToshibaDynamicIconUtility' → "C:\Program Files\TOSHIBA\TOSHIBA Places Icon Utility\TosDIMonitor.exe"
User start menu folder
Shortcut pointer placed in '%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'
- Shortcut to 'tosdimonitor.exe'
All file variations of tosdimonitor.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8.1 |
28.57% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
28.57% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
28.57% |
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| Windows 8 |
14.29% |
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Distribution by country
United Kingdom installs about 71.43% of Toshiba Places Icon Utility.
