Should I block it?

40%

40% of PCs block this file from running.

Possible reason:

Performance resource utilization

Additional versions

1.0.4.0	87.50%
1.0.3.10	12.50%

Relationships

mdmonitor.exe (MaxiDisk Monitor by Uniblue Systems)

PE file structure

Show functions

Import table

kernel32.dll

IsDebuggerPresent, GetCurrentProcess, TerminateProcess, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, GetCurrentProcessId, GetCurrentThreadId, GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, GetStartupInfoA, InterlockedCompareExchange, Sleep, InterlockedExchange, HeapAlloc, IsBadReadPtr, SetLastError, GetProcessHeap, HeapFree, VirtualFree, VirtualProtect, VirtualAlloc, FreeLibrary, GetModuleHandleA, OutputDebugStringA, GetFullPathNameA, LoadLibraryA, GetProcAddress, UnmapViewOfFile, CreateFileA, GetFileSize, CreateFileMappingA, CloseHandle, MapViewOfFile, FindResourceA, LoadResource, LockResource, GetModuleFileNameA, GetLastError, FormatMessageA, LocalFree, lstrlenA, UnhandledExceptionFilter

msvcr90.dll

DllMain

user32.dll

GetFocus, MessageBoxA

maxidisk.exe

MaxiDisk by Uniblue Systems (Signed)

Remove maxidisk.exe

Version:	1.0.3.10
MD5:	820d8394591af173bc49b0a071de6946
SHA1:	7bf71168dac10eaf3a04978ceedb42eddba45903
SHA256:	41959c07db8fba3a51870d15640d0f07f919439e54ffcbd0c5ebdb8252904bdc

About maxidisk.exe (from Uniblue Systems)

“A computer’s hard disk is prone to accumulating unnecessary files, such as Windows temporary files and temporary internet files, which can either be created by applications or stored by a web browser.”

Overview

maxidisk.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is an auto-starting process that used the Windows Task Scheduler service to load when the user logs into Windows (sometimes this is required to bypass the UAC protection). This is typically installed with the program Uniblue MaxiDisk published by Uniblue Systems Ltd. The file is digitally signed by Uniblue Systems which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	maxidisk.exe
Publisher:	Uniblue Systems Limited
Product name:	MaxiDisk
Description:	Uniblue MaxiDisk
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\uniblue\maxidisk\maxidisk.exe
File version:	1.0.3.10
Size:	55.38 KB (56,704 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	Uniblue Systems
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Expiration date:	Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:	Windows GUI
File packed:	No
Code language:	Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Programs

The following program will install this file

Uniblue MaxiDisk

Uniblue Systems Ltd

26% remove

“MaxiDisk offers a number of features related to the performance of your hard drives. It helps in gaining extra disk space by detecting and removing Junk files and old Windows backups that might not be needed any longer. To gain further disk space, the file compression feature scans for those files in your user profile that are taking up the most space, and compresses them into smaller files at the click of a button. The disk defragmenta...”

Behaviors

Scheduled tasks

The job 'MaxiDisk' runs on logon in the path '\MaxiDisk'
Entry path '\MaxiDisk'

Scheduled tasks startups

Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)

Network connections

[UDP] listens on port 49276

Resource utilization

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

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.01745816%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00967815%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00778001%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	827 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Context switches:	378/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	35.45 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	50.18 MB
Private (minimum):	24.29 MB
Non-paged memory:	35.45 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	179.38 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	196.64 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	47.45 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	50.26 MB	37.95 MB
Resource allocations
Threads:	14	12
Handles:	410	600
GUI GDI count:	166	103
GUI GDI peak:	171	142
GUI USER count:	49	49
GUI USER peak:	63	71