netgeargenie.exe
By NETGEAR (Signed)
| MD5: | c56270ae93484595950102df6b23caec |
| SHA1: | 2997ba85b123a19df4a4b8af2bcf9f69c6e166fa |
| SHA256: | 1052a8f54fa2611e6d529ad5cb55fbed25c81c830639e76b3245a3084577fbd1 |
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). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. The file is digitally signed by NETGEAR which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | netgeargenie.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\netgear genie\bin\netgeargenie.exe |
| Size: | 1019.75 KB (1,044,224 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/27/2013 12:53 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | NETGEAR |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, September 19, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, September 27, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .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
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\NETGEAR Genie\bin\NETGEARGenie.exe'
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[UDP] listens on port 5826
[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: | 0.00319812% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00202019% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00117793% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 438,069 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,000,230/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2,444/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 70.46 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 76.35 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 45.05 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 70.46 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 846.47 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 858.71 MB | |
| Working set: | 68.9 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 76.82 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,471,392/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.1 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 32,422/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 5.33 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 321/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 416.76 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 214,008/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 181 | |
| Handles: | 2189 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 221 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 222 | |
| GUI USER count: | 111 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 120 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\netgear genie\bin\netgeargenie.exe" -mini -redirect
- "C:\Program Files\netgear genie\bin\netgeargenie.exe" -mini -redirect
- "C:\Program Files\netgear genie\bin\netgeargenie.exe"
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| NETGEARGenie.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03908007% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02249342% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01658665% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,319,193/sec | |
| Context switches: | 22/sec | |
| Memory: | 1 MB | |
| wow64win.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01862841% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01574763% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00288079% | |
| CPU cycles: | 51,678/sec | |
| Memory: | 416 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01594055% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00869700% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00724355% | |
| CPU cycles: | 515,307/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01009001% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00513598% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00495404% | |
| CPU cycles: | 70,072/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 8 Pro |
26.32% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
26.32% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
15.79% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
10.53% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.53% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
5.26% |
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| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
5.26% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 84.21% of netgeargenie.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
42.86% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
28.57% |
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| GIGABYTE |
14.29% |
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| Alienware |
14.29% |
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