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accuweather.exe

accuweather by Unlimited Realities (Signed)

Version:	1.7.209.0
MD5:	53edbe9c1d6b0cec11a573852b5b6dad
SHA1:	48562718fc06ce30f247914ea936a8156f636074
SHA256:	e4a6b00aa93f2e8bba7149601a37d7388e0a5ec48cd95a0bd94939fd96726811

Overview

accuweather.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). The file is digitally signed by Unlimited Realities which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	accuweather.exe
Product name:	accuweather
Description:	AccuWeather.com desktop weather widget
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\dell stage\dell stage\accuweather\accuweather.exe
Original name:	accuweather
File version:	1.7.209.0
Size:	945.36 KB (968,048 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	Unlimited Realities
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Monday, March 7, 2011
Digital DNA
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Behaviors

Startup files (all users) run

Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'

'AccuWeatherWidget' → "C:\Program Files\Dell Stage\Dell Stage\AccuWeather\accuweather.exe" "C:\Program Files\Dell Stage\Dell Stage\AccuWeather\start.umj" --startup

Network connections

[TCP] a23-72-180-178.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.72.180.178:80)

[TCP] a23-72-224-209.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.72.224.209:80)

[TCP] a96-17-111-32.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (96.17.111.32:80)

[TCP] 216.156.199.177.ptr.us.xo.net (216.156.199.177:80)

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00065782%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00036370%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00029412%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	24,458 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	19,326,382/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	133/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	132.74 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	13.11 MB
Private (minimum):	832 KB
Non-paged memory:	132.74 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	292.14 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	359.57 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	3.19 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	75.15 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	129,998,295/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	16.93 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	3/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	7.21 KB/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	4/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	1.9 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	24/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	12	12
Handles:	387	600
GUI GDI count:	74	103
GUI GDI peak:	78	142
GUI USER count:	33	49
GUI USER peak:	105	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	Medium
Platform:	64-bit
Command line:	"C:\Program Files\dell stage\dell stage\accuweather\accuweather.exe" "C:\Program Files\dell stage\dell stage\accuweather\start.umj" --startup
Owner:	User

Threads

Averages

accuweather.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.02544817%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00978123%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.01566693%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	4,148,424/sec	5,741,424/sec
Context switches:	10/sec	79/sec
Memory:	952 KB	1.16 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.01550243%
Kernel CPU:	0.01547812%
User CPU:	0.00002432%
CPU cycles:	9,689/sec
Memory:	1.66 MB
wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft)
Total CPU:	0.00009460%
Kernel CPU:	0.00001879%
User CPU:	0.00007581%
CPU cycles:	1,041/sec
Memory:	252 KB

Common loaded modules

These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.

Distribution by Windows OS

OS version	distribution
Windows 7 Home Premium	66.67%
Windows 7 Professional	13.33%
Windows 7 Home Basic	13.33%
Windows 7 Ultimate	6.67%

Distribution by country

United States installs about 80.00% of accuweather.

Distribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturer	distribution
Dell	100.00%

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