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AcroRd32.exe

Adobe Reader by Adobe Systems (Signed)

Remove AcroRd32.exe
Version:   10.1.8.24
MD5:   69a7998b4bcd9c3bc1f7e9a74d974957
SHA1:   7347f7425f4d58b394846dd7646a5edf91a0bdb0
SHA256:   9307756ba992c71b2332374c6e3a8a7ba86259c051d94bf77f00604c875c3adc

What is AcroRd32.exe?

Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Overview

AcroRd32.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Adobe Acrobat X Pro - Japanese published by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Adobe Acrobat X Pro from Adobe Systems Incorporated and Adobe Acrobat X Pro by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The file is digitally signed by Adobe Systems which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

DetailsDetails

File name:AcroRd32.exe
Publisher:Adobe Systems Incorporated
Product name:Adobe Reader
Description:Adobe Reader 9.0
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 9.0\reader\acrord32.exe
File version:10.1.8.24
Size:1.4 MB (1,467,768 bytes)
Build date:9/3/2013 6:21 AM
Certificate
Issued to:Adobe Systems
Authority (CA):VeriSign
Effective date:Monday, September 18, 2006
Expiration date:Thursday, November 5, 2009
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:Windows GUI
Entropy:5.351788
File packed:No
Code language:Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
.NET CLR:No
More details

ResourcesPrograms

The following programs will install this file
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - Japanese
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
4% remove
“You can use Acrobat to view, search, and print PDF documents that contain Asian text (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can also use these languages when you fill in forms, add comments, and apply digital signatures. Almost all of the Acrobat features are supported for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text if you install the respective Asian language font packs. In Windows, you may be...”
Adobe Acrobat X Pro
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software 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.
Adobe Acrobat X Standard
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
3% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software 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.
Adobe Reader X
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
5% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X 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. It includes sandboxing protection fo...
Adobe Acrobat X Standard - Japanese
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
8% remove
“You can use Acrobat to view, search, and print PDF documents that contain Asian text (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can also use these languages when you fill in forms, add comments, and apply digital signatures. Almost all of the Acrobat features are supported for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text if you install the respective Asian language font packs. In Windows, you may be...”
Adobe Reader X MUI
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
11% remove
“Adobe Reader lets you read and print from any system any document created as an Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file, with its original appearance preserved. PDF files are compact and can be shared, viewed, navigated, and printed exactly as the author intended by anyone with Adobe Reader.”
Adobe Reader X - Deutsch
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
10% remove
“Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Say goodbye to paper forms. Type your responses right on the PDF form, or click through and fill in the form fields. Then save and submit. That's really all there is to it. When you need to sign a PDF form,...”
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - ChineseT
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
11% remove
“You can use Acrobat to view, search, and print PDF documents that contain Asian text (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can also use these languages when you fill in forms, add comments, and apply digital signatures. Almost all of the Acrobat features are supported for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text if you install the respective Asian language font packs. In Windows, you may be...”
Adobe Reader X - Português
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Reader X 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.
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - English, Français, Deutsch
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
4% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software 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.
Adobe Reader X - Español
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Reader X 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.
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - English, Russian
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
7% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software 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.
Adobe Reader X - Arabic
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
9% remove
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...
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - Korean
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
10% remove
“You can use Acrobat to view, search, and print PDF documents that contain Asian text (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can also use these languages when you fill in forms, add comments, and apply digital signatures. Almost all of the Acrobat features are supported for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text if you install the respective Asian language font packs. In Windows, you may be...”
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - ChineseS
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
5% remove
“You can use Acrobat to view, search, and print PDF documents that contain Asian text (Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean). You can also use these languages when you fill in forms, add comments, and apply digital signatures. Almost all of the Acrobat features are supported for Traditional and Simplified Chinese, Japanese, and Korean text if you install the respective Asian language font packs. In Windows, you may be...”
Adobe Acrobat X Pro - Italiano, Español, Nederlands, Português
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software 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.
Adobe Reader X MUI
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
7% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X 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.
Adobe Reader X - Italiano
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
3% remove
“Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Say goodbye to paper forms. Type your responses right on the PDF form, or click through and fill in the form fields. Then save and submit. That's really all there is to it. When you need to sign a PDF form,...”
Adobe Reader X - Japanese
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
3% remove
“Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Say goodbye to paper forms. Type your responses right on the PDF form, or click through and fill in the form fields. Then save and submit. That's really all there is to it. When you need to sign a PDF form,...”
Adobe Reader X - Nederlands
 Adobe Systems Incorporated
7% remove
“Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia. Say goodbye to paper forms. Type your responses right on the PDF form, or click through and fill in the form fields. Then save and submit. That's really all there is to it. When you need to sign a PDF form,...”

BehaviorsBehaviors

Scheduled tasks
  • The task '{7BA77A3A-9000-4A31-AA85-9153D38FD7C7}' runs on registration in the path '\{7BA77A3A-9000-4A31-AA85-9153D38FD7C7}'
  • The job '{C38D5D8F-604E-43D3-8739-B66C1B490541}' runs on registration in the path '\{C38D5D8F-604E-43D3-8739-B66C1B490541}'
  • The job '{A5EA3B4C-A5F1-4E0E-8F40-35BCB2C35E59}' runs on registration in the path '\{A5EA3B4C-A5F1-4E0E-8F40-35BCB2C35E59}'
  • The task '{95B0BB98-D891-4F39-B1BF-E5875B328A92}' runs on registration in the path '\{95B0BB98-D891-4F39-B1BF-E5875B328A92}'
  • The job '{4BD76361-419D-4920-8936-F6F03D4420BA}' runs on registration in the path '\{4BD76361-419D-4920-8936-F6F03D4420BA}'
  • The task '{9F90E156-3443-4F55-BDE7-83312D6A3B97}' runs on registration in the path '\{9F90E156-3443-4F55-BDE7-83312D6A3B97}'
  • Entry path '\{BCBC90BC-7132-43D2-93A1-EB18C7AB46D2}'
  • Entry path '\{B6D33AB2-D5BE-4A57-84A7-1AD706526772}'
  • Entry path '\{951A0EC2-87B8-4DCA-88D3-96A448B71B78}'
  • Entry path '\{6BA3BAE6-9367-4952-B0C7-5AA62F8977DC}'
  • Entry path '\{56E820C4-C882-4899-9AE3-1810142BA6BA}'
  • Entry path '\{4A05E0BF-EDDF-4C3B-B51B-35C63CA19FC6}'
  • Entry path '\{2505ED7D-D0A4-4A7E-B9E8-5FFDFDB6F802}'
  • Entry path '\{0FCB99A3-188B-4F9E-B845-7C85CD0392B6}'
  • Entry path '\{867D4E1F-80BE-4A2D-8157-1A8705020099}'
  • Entry path '\{3323ED45-BDD5-46DD-B0D0-49B72DE4D5E4}'
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
  • Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe'
  • Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe'
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
  • [UDP] listens on port 64980

    • ResourcesResource utilization

    (Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
    Averages
     
    CPU
    Total CPU:0.00050837%
    0.028634%
    Kernel CPU:0.00029882%
    0.013761%
    User CPU:0.00020955%
    0.014873%
    Kernel CPU time:47,541 ms/min
    100,923,805ms/min
    CPU cycles:14,437,998/sec
    17,470,203/sec
    Memory
    Private memory:81.78 MB
    21.59 MB
    Private (maximum):88.39 MB
    Private (minimum):2.96 MB
    Non-paged memory:81.78 MB
    21.59 MB
    Virtual memory:249.13 MB
    140.96 MB
    Virtual memory (peak):271.8 MB
    169.69 MB
    Working set:5.83 MB
    18.61 MB
    Working set (peak):88.62 MB
    37.95 MB
    Page faults:216,288/min
    2,039/min
    I/O
    I/O read transfer:53.22 KB/sec
    1.02 MB/min
    I/O read operations:12/sec
    343/min
    I/O write transfer:5.72 KB/sec
    274.99 KB/min
    I/O write operations:2/sec
    227/min
    I/O other transfer:1.4 KB/sec
    448.09 KB/min
    I/O other operations:84/sec
    1,671/min
    Resource allocations
    Threads:26
    12
    Handles:469
    600
    GUI GDI count:120
    103
    GUI GDI peak:138
    142
    GUI USER count:128
    49
    GUI USER peak:132
    71

    BehaviorsProcess properties

    Integrety level:Low
    Platform:64-bit
    Command lines:
    • "C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 10.0\reader\acrord32.exe" --channel=6204.001ff934.49412564 --type=renderer "C:\_pdf_manuals\wdtv live user's manual_english.pdf"
    • "C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 10.0\reader\acrord32.exe" "C:\_pdf_manuals\wdtv live user's manual_english.pdf"
    Owner:User
    Parent process:AcroRd32.exe (Adobe Reader by Adobe Systems)

    ResourcesThreads

    Averages
     
    AcroRd32.exe (main module)
    Total CPU:0.03508832%
    0.272967%
    Kernel CPU:0.01304016%
    0.107585%
    User CPU:0.02204815%
    0.165382%
    CPU cycles:8,542,423/sec
    5,741,424/sec
    Memory:1.43 MB
    1.16 MB
    ntdll.dll
    Total CPU:0.01028482%
    Kernel CPU:0.00774314%
    User CPU:0.00254169%
    CPU cycles:230,417/sec
    Memory:1.66 MB
    wow64.dll
    Total CPU:0.00010728%
    Kernel CPU:0.00010728%
    User CPU:0.00000000%
    CPU cycles:3,025/sec
    Memory:252 KB

    Common loaded modules

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

    Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

    OS versiondistribution
    Windows 7 Home Premium 42.68%
    Windows 8 9.76%
    Windows 8 Pro 8.54%
    Windows 7 Professional 8.54%
    Windows 7 Ultimate 7.32%
    Microsoft Windows XP 6.10%
    Windows 7 Starter 3.66%
    Windows XP Professional 3.66%
    Windows 8.1 Pro 2.44%
    Windows 7 Home Basic 2.44%
    Windows 8.1 N 1.22%
    Windows Vista Ultimate 1.22%
    Windows Vista Home Premium 1.22%
    Windows Vista Home Basic 1.22%

    Distribution by countryDistribution by country

    United States installs about 48.68% of Adobe Reader.

    OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

    PC Manufacturerdistribution
    ASUS 28.57%
    Hewlett-Packard 16.07%
    Acer 16.07%
    Dell 10.71%
    Sony 7.14%
    Toshiba 7.14%
    GIGABYTE 7.14%
    Intel 7.14%
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