Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
pidgin.exe
Pidgin by Daniel Atallah (Signed)
| Version: | 2.10.3 |
| MD5: | d2bfa3e9c01eb1b00b7a4b5df1226628 |
| SHA1: | 4fa411cbc2091457ebcc7fb58d1300f4888d2623 |
| SHA256: | 7dce143f28344b055e86f9483157bf7f46f29f7939126ffb7e3fadbe3435ced2 |
Overview
pidgin.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Pidgin published by Pidgin and Pidgin v2.10.3 published by Tuguu SL. 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: | 2.10.3 |
| Size: | 48.18 KB (49,340 bytes) |
| 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 programs 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] cs214p2.msg.sp1.yahoo.com (98.136.48.114:5050)
[UDP] listens on port 61679
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00088785% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00068911% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00019875% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 20,811 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 22.07 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 34.68 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 22.71 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 22.07 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 156.59 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 198.07 MB | |
| Working set: | 23.32 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 35.3 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 236 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 352 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 359 | |
| GUI USER count: | 82 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 84 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| pidgin.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.06292122% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01783444% | |
| User CPU: | 0.04508677% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,738,116/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory: | 64 KB | |
| wow64cpu.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00010826% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009473% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001353% | |
| CPU cycles: | 5,092/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005413% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00005413% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,524/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 |
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% |
|
