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No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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boost.exe
Boost by Reason Software Company Inc. (Signed)
Version: | 1.0.2.22393 |
MD5: | 6acd11811c98ab896139ea250453cb64 |
SHA1: | 87d2f9ca7f88cdc0c329bd0cf3563867382ce4ec |
SHA256: | cd241901e83b917d40baa2078f012fc9f3bc6631e481a234e1820b96992e7088 |
What is boost.exe?
Boost maintains performance and stability by preventing unnecessary programs from consuming system resources and affecting critical programs. When you start to feel your PC become sluggish, don't reboot, simply give your PC an instantaneous Boost with just one click.
About boost.exe (from Reason Software Company Inc.)
“Boost helps to restore the pep in your PC by removing crapware, bloatware, trialware, bundleware, and adware. Such “crapware” (and yes that’s an industry term) is known to cause system crashes, boot d”
Details
File name: | boost.exe |
Publisher: | Reason Software Company Inc. |
Product name: | Boost |
Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe
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File version: | 1.0.2.22393 |
Size: | 5.01 MB (5,254,024 bytes) |
Certificate |
Issued to: | Reason Software Company Inc. |
Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
Expiration date: | Tuesday, August 27, 2013 |
Digital DNA |
PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
File packed: | No |
Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
.NET CLR: | Yes |
.NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Reason Software Company Inc. |
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Boost maintains performance and stability by preventing unnecessary programs from consuming system resources and affecting critical programs. When you start to feel your PC become sluggish, don't reboot, simply give your PC an instantaneous Boost with just one click. Boost helps to restore the pep in your PC by removing crapware, bloatware, trialware, bundleware, and adware. Such “crapware” (and yes that’s an industry term) is known to ...
Behaviors
Scheduled tasks
- The job '{BBBC1548-6134-4782-921A-0C5205F94C85}' runs on registration in the path '\{BBBC1548-6134-4782-921A-0C5205F94C85}'
- The task 'Boost' runs on logon in the path '\Boost'
- Entry path '\Boost'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\Boost'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Boost' → "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Reason\Boost\boost.exe" /autostart
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Reason\Boost\boost.exe'
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Boost' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Reason\Boost\boost.exe" /autostart
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[TCP] ec2-107-23-37-165.compute-1.amazonaws.com (107.23.37.165:80)
[UDP] listens on port 51899
[UDP] listens on port 52497
[UDP] listens on port 1495
[UDP] listens on port 57709
[UDP] listens on port 62172
[UDP] listens on port 53258
[UDP] listens on port 63511
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
CPU |
Total CPU: | 0.01323669% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00660667% | |
User CPU: | 0.00663001% | |
Kernel CPU time: | 175,436,505 ms/min | |
CPU cycles: | 10,224,315/sec | |
Context switches: | 5,630/sec | |
Memory |
Private memory: | 74.17 MB | |
Private (maximum): | 74.74 MB | |
Private (minimum): | 8.31 MB | |
Non-paged memory: | 74.17 MB | |
Virtual memory: | 538.76 MB | |
Virtual memory (peak): | 581.45 MB | |
Working set: | 48.07 MB | |
Working set (peak): | 107.4 MB | |
Page faults: | 3,002,966/min | |
I/O |
I/O read transfer: | 1.18 MB/sec | |
I/O read operations: | 291/sec | |
I/O write transfer: | 1.3 KB/sec | |
I/O write operations: | 7/sec | |
I/O other transfer: | 10.33 KB/sec | |
I/O other operations: | 1,526/sec | |
Resource allocations |
Threads: | 21 | |
Handles: | 820 | |
GUI GDI count: | 120 | |
GUI GDI peak: | 200 | |
GUI USER count: | 101 | |
GUI USER peak: | 187 | |
Process properties
Tray notification: | Yes |
Integrety level: | High |
Platform: | 64-bit |
Command lines: |
- C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe /autostart
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe"
- "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\reason\boost\boost.exe" /autostart
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe" /autostart
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe" /install
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\reason\boost\boost.exe" /recovered
- "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\reason\boost\boost.exe" /install
- (10 more)
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Owner: | User |
Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
mscorwks.dll |
Total CPU: | 9.85345506% | |
Kernel CPU: | 4.78738205% | |
User CPU: | 5.06607301% | |
CPU cycles: | 211,838,914/sec | |
Context switches: | 778/sec | |
Memory: | 9.62 MB | |
mscoree.dll (Microsoft .NET Framework by Microsoft) |
Total CPU: | 1.31703003% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.36099938% | |
User CPU: | 0.95603066% | |
Context switches: | 46/sec | |
Memory: | 296 KB | |
boost.exe (main module) |
Total CPU: | 0.29697994% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.09967135% | |
User CPU: | 0.19730859% | |
CPU cycles: | 10,111,020/sec | |
Context switches: | 39/sec | |
Memory: | 5.04 MB | |
msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
Total CPU: | 0.01024283% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
User CPU: | 0.01024283% | |
CPU cycles: | 136,840/sec | |
Memory: | 680 KB | |
ntdll.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00322761% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00317715% | |
User CPU: | 0.00005046% | |
CPU cycles: | 42,703/sec | |
Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
combase.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00215044% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
User CPU: | 0.00215044% | |
CPU cycles: | 9,686/sec | |
Memory: | 1.69 MB | |
gdiplus.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00117863% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00000152% | |
User CPU: | 0.00117711% | |
CPU cycles: | 7,520/sec | |
Memory: | 1.67 MB | |
ADVAPI32.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00107559% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00019931% | |
User CPU: | 0.00087628% | |
Context switches: | 8/sec | |
Memory: | 620 KB | |
aspnet_perf.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00089658% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00081980% | |
User CPU: | 0.00007678% | |
CPU cycles: | 189,899/sec | |
Memory: | 52 KB | |
aspnet_isapi.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00052021% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00052021% | |
User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
Context switches: | 2/sec | |
Memory: | 264 KB | |
ole32.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00038173% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
User CPU: | 0.00038173% | |
CPU cycles: | 3,988/sec | |
Memory: | 2.01 MB | |
rasman.dll |
Total CPU: | 0.00025516% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00015719% | |
User CPU: | 0.00009797% | |
CPU cycles: | 909/sec | |
Memory: | 84 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 |
34.50% |
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Windows 8.1 |
14.00% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro |
13.50% |
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Windows 7 Ultimate |
9.00% |
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Windows 8 |
6.00% |
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Windows 8.1 Single Language |
6.00% |
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Windows 7 Professional |
4.50% |
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Windows 8 Single Language |
3.00% |
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Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
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Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
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Windows 8.1 N |
1.50% |
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Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.50% |
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise Evaluation |
1.50% |
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Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 52.00% of Boost.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
ASUS |
19.92% |
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Hewlett-Packard |
17.53% |
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Dell |
16.73% |
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Acer |
13.55% |
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Toshiba |
11.95% |
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Lenovo |
9.56% |
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Alienware |
2.79% |
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Intel |
2.39% |
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Sony |
2.39% |
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Samsung |
1.99% |
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GIGABYTE |
1.20% |
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