Should I block it?

60%

60% of PCs block this file from running.

Possible reason:

Performance resource utilization

Additional versions

4, 1, 509, 1944	95.29%
2, 0, 301, 1654	4.71%

Relationships

Parent processes

Related files

PE file structure

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Import table

advapi32.dll

RegOpenKeyExW, RegQueryValueExW, RegCloseKey

kernel32.dll

ExitProcess, GetCommandLineA, GetStartupInfoA, GetModuleHandleA, GetCommandLineW, FreeLibrary, GetModuleFileNameW, CompareStringW, lstrlenW, GetProcAddress, lstrcmpiW, GetProcessHeap, HeapFree, LoadLibraryW, HeapAlloc, GetLocaleInfoA, GetACP, DeleteCriticalSection, InitializeCriticalSection, InterlockedExchange, GetVersionExA, EnterCriticalSection, LeaveCriticalSection, TerminateProcess, GetCurrentProcess, GetStartupInfoW, HeapReAlloc, HeapDestroy, HeapCreate, VirtualFree, VirtualAlloc, VirtualProtect, GetSystemInfo, VirtualQuery, MultiByteToWideChar, LCMapStringA, WideCharToMultiByte, GetLastError, LCMapStringW, TlsAlloc, SetLastError, GetCurrentThreadId, TlsFree, TlsSetValue, TlsGetValue, HeapSize, WriteFile, GetStdHandle, GetModuleFileNameA, UnhandledExceptionFilter, FreeEnvironmentStringsA, GetEnvironmentStrings, FreeEnvironmentStringsW, GetEnvironmentStringsW, SetHandleCount, GetFileType, QueryPerformanceCounter, GetTickCount, GetCurrentProcessId, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, RtlUnwind, GetCPInfo, GetStringTypeA, GetStringTypeW, GetOEMCP, LoadLibraryA

GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

GoogleToolbarNotifier by Google Inc (Signed)

Remove GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe

Version:	2, 0, 301, 1654
MD5:	e616a6a6e91b0a86f2f6217cde835ffe
SHA1:	edf35bad552fe80897eb3e9b088f00439503a815
SHA256:	411671c4b2bb4db3f02a21c199a5479f31394165704736a549b53245b94577f7

What is GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe?

Google Toolbar Notifier is a Windows service that runs in the background to make sure that Google is your default search engine and is automatically installed on your PC when you install many of the Google applications such as the Google Toolbar or Google Chrome. This windows service is simply designed to make sure the default search provider is not changed.

About GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe (from Google Inc)

“Toolbar Notifier protects your Google search settings and notifies you if a website or program attempts to change your default search settings. Sometimes malware attempts to redirect your searches to ”

Details

File name:	GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe
Publisher:	Google Inc.
Product name:	GoogleToolbarNotifier
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\google\googletoolbarnotifier\googletoolbarnotifier.exe
File version:	2, 0, 301, 1654
Size:	67.24 KB (68,856 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	Google Inc
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Monday, June 18, 2007
Expiration date:	Friday, June 18, 2010
Digital DNA
Entropy:	5.488021
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'

'swg' → "C:\Program Files\Google\GoogleToolbarNotifier\GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe"

Network connections

[TCP] yyz06s07-in-f0.1e100.net (74.125.226.64:80)

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00345997%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00137758%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00208240%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	50,121 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
User CPU time:	1 ms/min	0 ms/min
CPU cycles:	101,568/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	1/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	4.92 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	3.66 MB
Private (minimum):	1.51 MB
Non-paged memory:	4.92 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	78.88 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	82.51 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	2.02 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	8.49 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	42,928/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	9.78 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	8/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	59 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	720 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	21/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	6	12
Handles:	300	600
GUI GDI count:	13	103
GUI USER count:	15	49

Process properties

Platform:	32-bit
Command lines:	"C:\Program Files\google\googletoolbarnotifier\googletoolbarnotifier.exe" -embedding "C:\Program Files\google\googletoolbarnotifier\googletoolbarnotifier.exe" "C:\programmer\google\googletoolbarnotifier\googletoolbarnotifier.exe"
Owner:	User
Parent processes:	svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation) explorer.exe (Windows Stifinder by Microsoft)

Threads

Averages

GoogleToolbarNotifier.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00018371%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00013386%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00004985%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	55,922/sec	5,741,424/sec
Memory:	76 KB	1.16 MB
swg.dll (GoogleToolbarNotifier by Google)
Total CPU:	0.00006681%
Kernel CPU:	0.00004758%
User CPU:	0.00001923%
CPU cycles:	1,197/sec
Memory:	996 KB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00000976%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000976%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	138/sec
Memory:	1.16 MB

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%
Microsoft Windows XP	20.00%
Windows Vista Home Premium	13.50%
Windows 7 Ultimate	8.00%
Windows 7 Professional	8.00%
Windows 8 Pro	5.00%
Windows 7 Home Basic	4.00%
Windows 8	3.00%
Windows 8.1	1.00%
Windows 8 Pro with Media Center	1.00%
Windows 7 Starter	1.00%
Windows Vista Home Basic	0.50%
Windows Vista Ultimate	0.50%

Distribution by country

United States installs about 48.24% of GoogleToolbarNotifier.

Distribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturer	distribution
Toshiba	19.01%
Dell	14.08%
Hewlett-Packard	13.73%
Sony	11.27%
Acer	10.21%
ASUS	8.45%
Lenovo	5.63%
Intel	5.63%
Compaq	4.23%
Gateway	3.52%
GIGABYTE	1.41%
Samsung	1.06%
American Megatrends	0.70%
Alienware	0.35%
Packard Bell	0.35%
Sahara	0.35%

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