Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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netgeargenie.exe
NETGEAR Genie by NETGEAR
| Version: | v2.3 |
| MD5: | a05c90377d977f08a7ae81c675411dd9 |
| SHA1: | 58cfa6f0d45b80e30406e59bfcd8e75e9bcc1484 |
Overview
netgeargenie.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). This particular version is usually found on Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536).
Details
| File name: | netgeargenie.exe |
| Publisher: | NETGEAR Inc. |
| Product name: | NETGEAR Genie |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\netgear genie\bin\netgeargenie.exe |
| Original name: | NETGEAR Genie.exe |
| File version: | v2.3 |
| Size: | 582.5 KB (596,480 bytes) |
| Build date: | 4/22/2014 2:12 AM |
| Digital DNA |
| 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'
- 'NETGEARGenie' → "C:\Program Files\NETGEAR Genie\bin\NETGEARGenie.exe" -mini -redirect
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 5353
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00041323% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018046% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00023277% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 28,423 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 296/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 115.96 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 101.97 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 76.44 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 115.96 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 527.15 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 605.9 MB | |
| Working set: | 101.54 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 102.11 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 129 | |
| Handles: | 1200 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 63 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 73 | |
| GUI USER count: | 62 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 78 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| NETGEARGenie.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01734125% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00189528% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01544597% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,065,161/sec | |
| Context switches: | 12/sec | |
| Memory: | 608 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00156931% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00085448% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00071483% | |
| CPU cycles: | 271,146/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00014694% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009796% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004898% | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,226/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 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 |
100.00% |
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