Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
| 1,630,14,0 |
18.18% |
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| 1,550,54,0 |
27.27% |
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| 1,550,54,0 |
18.18% |
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| 1,550,36,0 |
36.36% |
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Relationships
distnoted.exe
distnoted by Apple Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 1,550,54,0 |
| MD5: | b7eb7a62e60b7fcaf99e48b270afbb0f |
| SHA1: | 1c36019ca9c6535c853b21f666a4997e95f9844e |
| SHA256: | 3c47c1024076fd43a7f6aeb463c529a7220c39d0a3aa963428c01c49e8844f39 |
What is distnoted.exe?
Provides distributed notifications services.
Overview
distnoted.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
AppleMobileDeviceHelper.exe (by Apple). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Apple Application Support published by Apple Inc. and Apple Application Support (32-bit) published by Apple Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Apple Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | distnoted.exe |
| Publisher: | Apple Inc. |
| Product name: | distnoted |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\apple\apple application support\distnoted.exe |
| File version: | 1,550,54,0 |
| Size: | 12.78 KB (13,088 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Apple Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, May 17, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, June 26, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| Entropy: | 6.247140 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Apple Application Support is required to run iTunes, QuickTime and other Apple installed products (do not remove this if you use any of these programs). If you remove this program you will need to reinstall it in order for iTunes to load. The program is also used to connect iTunes to the various iOS devices such as the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch.
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00878185% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00256574% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00621612% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 25 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 4 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.88 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 82 KB | |
| Private (minimum): | 80 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.88 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 44.38 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 47.84 MB | |
| Working set: | 90 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.53 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,442/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 694 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 384 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 30/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 62 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
45.45% |
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| Windows XP Home Edition |
36.36% |
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| Windows XP Professional |
18.18% |
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