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chrome_frame_helper.exe
Google Chrome Frame by Google Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 26.0.1410.43 |
| MD5: | 78327d56e28b77ab1a2f04c62648f51d |
| SHA1: | 7f8090e46c95d989d0eb40478d7e603dbe56a61e |
| SHA256: | 9eca467ae5d7610e3196fede0acb1461fb734fccdd5d5ee44822a7d611d1ac12 |
Overview
chrome_frame_helper.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Google Chrome published by Google Inc, Google Chrome Frame from Google Inc and Google Chrome Frame by Google Inc. The file is digitally signed by Google Inc which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | chrome_frame_helper.exe |
| Publisher: | Google Inc. |
| Product name: | Google Chrome Frame |
| Description: | Chrome Frame renders the Web of the future in the browsers of the past. It's like strapping a rocket engine to a minivan. |
| Typical file path: | C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\google\chrome\application\26.0.1410.43\chrome_frame_helper.exe |
| File version: | 26.0.1410.43 |
| Size: | 80.95 KB (82,896 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Google Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, November 13, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, November 13, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Google Chrome is a free web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. It is designed to be secure, fast, simple and stable. Chrome supports plug-ins with the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI). Chrome sends details about its usage to Google through both optional and non-optional user tracking mechanisms. The JavaScript virtual machine used by Chrome, the V8 JavaScript engine, has features suc...
“Google Chrome Frame is a free plug-in for Internet Explorer. Some advanced web apps use Google Chrome Frame to provide you with additional features and better performance. Sites that utilize Google Chrome Frame become more responsive. With Google Chrome Frame, sites offer you new features based on open technologies. Google Chrome Frame works under the hood with your current browser. Google Chrome Frame is only available for Internet Exp...”
Google Chrome is a freeware web browser developed by Google that uses the WebKit layout engine. Google Chrome aims to be secure, fast, simple and stable. There are extensive differences from its peers in Chrome's minimalistic user interface, which is atypical of modern web browsers. Chrome has currently quite good support for JavaScript/ECMAScript. Chrome supports plug-ins with the Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAP...
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'ChromeFrameHelper' → "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\26.0.1410.43\chrome_frame_helper.exe" --startup
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00029177% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000596% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00028581% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 8 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,464/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.61 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.74 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.48 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.61 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 47.94 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 47.94 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.57 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.74 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,012/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O other transfer: | 58 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 48 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 8 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 10 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 4 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\users\user\appdata\local\google\chrome\application\26.0.1410.43\chrome_frame_helper.exe
- "C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\google\chrome\application\26.0.1410.43\chrome_frame_helper.exe" --startup
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | Explorer.EXE (Windows Explorer by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
66.67% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
33.33% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Google Chrome Frame.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
50.00% |
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| Intel |
50.00% |
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