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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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antmaintainer.exe
Ant.com ToolBar by Ant.com Limited (Signed)
| Version: | 2.2.1 (build 75) |
| MD5: | 9deb136f90885513b5ae9188552a8cf9 |
| SHA1: | 49b67eb0b6fdb94fa24ebe0a60665a6a9b3a5a4d |
| SHA256: | 31df43da7749d0255e4dfb9f72ae8d017794ba4d0bbf39bd8034c25de468a783 |
What is antmaintainer.exe?
Ant.com Downloader and Updater for Ant.com ToolBar is the software updater program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
About antmaintainer.exe (from Ant.com Limited)
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Details
| File name: | antmaintainer.exe |
| Publisher: | Ant.com |
| Product name: | Ant.com ToolBar |
| Description: | Ant.com Downloader and Updater |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\ant.com\ie add-on\antmaintainer.exe |
| Original name: | Updater.exe |
| File version: | 2.2.1 (build 75) |
| Size: | 3.03 MB (3,179,544 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Ant.com Limited |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, July 5, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Ant.com IE add-on will add a button to download streaming videos to your hard disk while you are browsing with Internet Explorer. The Ant.com add-in will detect any video being played in your IE browser, and then will download it in its native .FLV format to your hard disk. The Movie Player will show a list of the videos that you downloaded using Ant.com IE add-on, and will let you play them, in a window or in full screen. It will also ...
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.05450765% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03500543% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01950221% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 706 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,500,022/sec | |
| Context switches: | 28/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.33 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.67 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.57 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.33 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 78.06 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 82.95 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.97 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.79 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,102/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 729 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 22/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 68.35 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 17/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.01 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 62/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 189 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 70 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 80 | |
| GUI USER count: | 29 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 36 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.03233556% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02453453% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00780103% | |
| CPU cycles: | 932,048/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| antmaintainer.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02405067% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01502605% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00902463% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,353,301/sec | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory: | 3.09 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00091662% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00091662% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,324/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.56 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
20.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
20.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 80.00% of Ant.com ToolBar.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
33.33% |
|
| NEC |
33.33% |
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| Compaq |
33.33% |
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