Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Relationships
Parent process
Related files
pidgin.exe
Pidgin by Daniel Atallah (Signed)
| Version: | 2.10.8 |
| MD5: | 615299438f73d9a2966d472c45c26b3a |
| SHA1: | 58c7a83aea8e3f3d51d1c0e63efca8b8f052123e |
Overview
pidgin.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. This is typically installed with the program Pidgin published by Pidgin. The file is digitally signed by Daniel Atallah which was issued by the StartCom Ltd. certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | pidgin.exe |
| Publisher: | The Pidgin developer community |
| Product name: | Pidgin |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\pidgin\pidgin.exe |
| File version: | 2.10.8 |
| Size: | 58.8 KB (60,216 bytes) |
| Build date: | 1/24/2014 5:34 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Daniel Atallah |
| Authority (CA): | StartCom Ltd. |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, September 20, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“Pidgin is a chat program which lets you log in to accounts on multiple chat networks simultaneously. This means that you can be chatting with friends on MSN, talking to a friend on Google Talk, and sitting in a Yahoo chat room all at the same time. Pidgin is compatible with the following chat networks out of the box: AIM, ICQ, Google Talk, Jabber/XMPP, MSN Messenger, Yahoo!, Bonjour, Gadu-Gadu, IRC, Novell GroupWise Messenger, Lotus Sam...”
Behaviors
Scheduled task
- Entry path '\{2EC2E79D-69C1-45AC-8AEA-374A815237D9}'
Network connections
[TCP] cs107p1.us2.msg.bf1.yahoo.com (66.196.114.64:5050)
[UDP] listens on port 64195
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00022587% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00019360% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003227% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 11,840 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,544,990/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 33.58 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 43 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 39.31 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 33.58 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 181.22 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 199.22 MB | |
| Working set: | 42.78 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 43.56 MB | |
| Page faults: | 144,532/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.48 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 386/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.29 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 972 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 59/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 15 | |
| Handles: | 316 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 342 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 363 | |
| GUI USER count: | 62 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 106 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| pidgin.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02623528% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00786354% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01837174% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,150,018/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 76 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013183% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00003955% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00009228% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,927/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
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 |
66.67% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United Kingdom installs about 66.67% of Pidgin.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
100.00% |
|
