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
genupdater.exe
By Genieo Innovation LTD (Signed)
| MD5: | e29bf277699b948bd42964f74e4ae7ca |
| SHA1: | f5bf08dcb76a0e4fc03701bc6cd5b8eb96ec10e1 |
| SHA256: | 533eccdad1a5988138876b9a69afc9329d57fb2627931842643ef5d393a29e04 |
What is genupdater.exe?
Genieo Updater 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. Genieo is a web browser framework that tries to automatically discover, manage and filter feeds according to users’ topics of interest.
About genupdater.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: | genupdater.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\genieo\application\updater\bin\genupdater.exe |
| Size: | 283.34 KB (290,144 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'
- 'GenieoUpdaterService' → "C:\users\user\appdata\Roaming\Genieo\Application\Updater\bin\genupdater.exe" -wait 5
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00198844% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00198844% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 20 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 816 KB | |
| Private (maximum): | 1.02 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 456 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 816 KB | |
| Virtual memory: | 53.18 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 53.41 MB | |
| Working set: | 300 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.32 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 1 | |
| Handles: | 36 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 9 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 2 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\genieo\application\updater\bin\genupdater.exe" -wait 360 |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
58.82% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
17.65% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
11.76% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
5.88% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
5.88% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of genupdater.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
100.00% |
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