Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
(Note, Genieo Innovation LTD publishes each variation of this file with the same version, but the hashes are unique.)
Relationships
gentray.exe
By Genieo Innovation LTD (Signed)
| MD5: | af17488371e84788fe89cb986bdec645 |
| SHA1: | db368c8282b11b359ab039eedc6b0dbb96a58927 |
| SHA256: | 05563e8f24bfd3522041b1033319d347305af425256bdbb3cbe10c4b6aad9663 |
What is gentray.exe?
gentray.exe is the program that runs in the notification area system tray. Genieo is a web browser framework that tries to automatically discover, manage and filter feeds according to users’ topics of interest. It runs within the context of Intenet Explorer as well as a stand alone process that remains running in the system tray as a background process. Genieo is a web browser framework that tries to automatically discover, manage and filter feeds according to users’ topics of interest.
About gentray.exe (from Genieo Innovation LTD)
“Genieo Software is a desktop application which automatically generates a personal start page with relevant content and ad-hock personalized news widgets. Unlike other start pages, Genieo Software does”
Details
| File name: | gentray.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\genieo\application\trayui\bin\gentray.exe |
| Size: | 514.34 KB (526,688 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Genieo Innovation LTD |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Expiration date: | Friday, February 7, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'GenieoSystemTray' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Genieo\Application\TrayUi\bin\gentray.exe"
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 54611
[UDP] listens on port 53453
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00598787% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00500777% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00098010% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 305 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,515,478/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.71 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.44 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.41 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.71 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 95.41 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 103.78 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.15 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 10.59 MB | |
| Page faults: | 14,441/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.9 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 83/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.2 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 17/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.85 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 252/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 20 | |
| Handles: | 359 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 32 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 34 | |
| GUI USER count: | 21 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 26 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\genieo\application\trayui\bin\gentray.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
Threads
Averages
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00148807% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00130206% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00018601% | |
| CPU cycles: | 27,262/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.36 MB | |
| sendori.dll (Sendori.dll by Sendori) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00129303% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00086202% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00043101% | |
| CPU cycles: | 425,683/sec | |
| Context switches: | 19/sec | |
| Memory: | 316 KB | |
| gentray.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00076052% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00067058% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00008994% | |
| CPU cycles: | 60,050/sec | |
| Memory: | 532 KB | |
| WININET.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00018601% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018601% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 32,924/sec | |
| Memory: | 980 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
56.25% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
18.75% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
12.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
6.25% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
6.25% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of gentray.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
100.00% |
|
