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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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GoogleUpdater.exe
Google Updater by Google Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 2.4.1536.6592.beta |
| MD5: | 7e4af50fbf367022488fd82be699cace |
| SHA1: | d76313bd1c0d4f7dfc0700144957009a87603299 |
| SHA256: | fb56905e636237ca3346982a3438240b4c0c9887acc0559ef9413a44cda06fd3 |
What is GoogleUpdater.exe?
Google products use a process called Google Update to periodically check for updates. This process sends information, such as version number, language, operating system, and other installation or update-related details, back to Google servers. Google Updater is a 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.
About GoogleUpdater.exe (from Google Inc)
“To make sure that you're protected by the latest security updates, Google Chrome automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available. The update process happens in”
Details
| File name: | GoogleUpdater.exe |
| Publisher: | Google |
| Product name: | Google Updater |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\google\google updater\googleupdater.exe |
| File version: | 2.4.1536.6592.beta |
| Size: | 157.98 KB (161,776 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Google Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, June 18, 2007 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, June 18, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.165187 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
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Programs
The following programs will install this file
Google products use a process called Google Update to periodically check for updates. This process sends information, such as version number, language, operating system, and other installation or update-related details, back to Google servers. Google Updater is a program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software updates and automatically downloads and installs them if ...
“Google Toolbar enhances Internet Explorer with a Google search box and other useful tools like a pop-up blocker, Web form filler, and spellchecker. Google Toolbar has a variety of new features to the add-on for IE 6.0+. Universal Google Gadgets now work from Google Toolbar and give users access to additional tools, functionality and content right from the browser. A new version of the AutoFill feature for Web forms has better accuracy. ...”
“Google Update i Aktualizator Google to programy, dzieki którym mozesz miec pewnosc, ze wszystkie aplikacje Google na komputerze sa zainstalowane w najbardziej aktualnych, stabilnych i bezpiecznych wersjach. Oba programy zawieraja usluge, która monitoruje, kiedy potrzebna jest aktualizacja. W zaleznosci od potrzeb aplikacji Google zainstalowanych w systemie na komputerze moze znajdowac sie jeden z tych programów lub oba.”
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Google Updater' → "C:\Program Files\Google\Google Updater\GoogleUpdater.exe" -check_deprecation
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.62476678% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.41472540% | |
| User CPU: | 0.21004137% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 538 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 124 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.34 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.95 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.95 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.34 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 98.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 101.18 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 12.98 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,717/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 54.22 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 100/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 28.68 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 10/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 98.61 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2,061/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 272 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 66 | |
| GUI USER count: | 34 | |
Process properties
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\google\google updater\googleupdater.exe" -runtime
- "C:\Program Files\google\google updater\googleupdater.exe" -systray
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
33.33% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
33.33% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
33.33% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Google Updater.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
100.00% |
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