This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
notepad.exe has 68 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). notepad.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 126.28 KB. The programs Activation Assistant for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites, Dell Support Center and Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine have been observed as installing specific variations of notepad.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0085% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 2.87 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 7.22 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 368 Bytes per minute for reads and 318 Bytes per minute for writes.
Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. The resulting files—typically saved with the .txt extension—have no format tags or styles.
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(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of notepad.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 21 of them detected the following malware.
United States installs about 49.87% of Notepad.
