Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
(Note, Murray Hurps publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
Parent process
Child process
Related files
AdMunch.exe
Ad Muncher by Murray Hurps (Signed)
| Version: | 4.93.33707 |
| MD5: | 9cc547fa992be6033b1ffc9c1a9a2be9 |
| SHA1: | 35a42fc37ff3346b30bbee491cf63580cae9c53c |
About AdMunch.exe (from Murray Hurps)
“Ad Muncher is a powerful advert and popup blocking system for all browsers and advert-displaying programs like Pando, SopCast, ICQ, Morpheus, Kazaa, Grokster, Opera, PalTalk, iMesh, Bearshare, LimeWir”
Overview
admunch.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
admuncherupdater.exe. 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 ACDSee Pro 4 published by ACD Systems Ltd and Ad Muncher v4.94.34121 (Free). The file is digitally signed by Murray Hurps which was issued by the The USERTRUST Network certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | admunch.exe |
| Publisher: | Murray Hurps Software Pty Ltd |
| Product name: | Ad Muncher |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\ad muncher\admunch.exe |
| File version: | 4.93.33707 |
| Size: | 581.2 KB (595,144 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/13/2021 10:31 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Murray Hurps |
| Authority (CA): | The USERTRUST Network |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, June 8, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, June 8, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | Yes |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
ACDSee Pro is an image organizer, viewer, and RAW / image editor programs for Microsoft Windows. ACDSee's main features are speed, lossless RAW/image editing, image batch processing, metadata (Exif/IPTC), with support to edit/embed metadata in image files, rating, keywords, and categories, and geotagging/GPS support. Judging the image quality of a picture is fast due to next/previous image caching, fast image/RAW decoding and support fo...
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Ad Muncher' → "C:\Program Files\Ad Muncher\AdMunch.exe" /bt
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01392900% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00497616% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00895284% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 234 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 19.32 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 25.88 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 24.59 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 19.32 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 104.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 105.16 MB | |
| Working set: | 25.88 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 25.88 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 186 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 31 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 43 | |
| GUI USER count: | 18 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 29 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\ad muncher\admunch.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | admuncherupdater.exe |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
40.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
10.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 80.00% of Ad Muncher.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Intel |
36.36% |
|
| Acer |
27.27% |
|
| ASUS |
18.18% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
18.18% |
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