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No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Import table
kernel32.dll
IsDebuggerPresent, UnhandledExceptionFilter, GetCurrentProcess, TerminateProcess, GetSystemTimeAsFileTime, GetCurrentProcessId, GetEnvironmentVariableW, SetDllDirectoryW, SetEnvironmentVariableW, ExpandEnvironmentStringsW, GetTickCount, QueryPerformanceCounter, DecodePointer, SetUnhandledExceptionFilter, EncodePointer, HeapSetInformation, InterlockedCompareExchange, Sleep, InterlockedExchange, GetCurrentThreadId, GetProcAddress, GetModuleHandleW
mozalloc.dll
moz_xmalloc, moz_free
mozcrt19.dll
__winitenv, _initterm, _initterm_e, _configthreadlocale, __setusermatherr, _adjust_fdiv, __p__commode, exit, _encode_pointer, __set_app_type, _unlock, __dllonexit, _lock, _onexit, _decode_pointer, _except_handler4_common, _invoke_watson, _controlfp_s, _crt_debugger_hook, _XcptFilter, _exit, _cexit, __wgetmainargs, _amsg_exit, wcslen, __p__fmode
msvcr100.dll
DllMain
msvcr80.dll
DllMain
xul.dll
XRE_InitChildProcess, XRE_StringToChildProcessType, NS_SetDllDirectory
plugin-container.exe
Firefox by Mozilla Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.0.2 |
| MD5: | 7653cd0e8f2c0052185673b574db699e |
| SHA1: | 1322c535fc46bf53b2add9e1697a8515ca53087d |
| SHA256: | ce20ec97d0df71a17cb4131ebd8131b28f1c22eec024a208c205fdca752a3c14 |
What is plugin-container.exe?
Plugin Container for Firefox - Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Functions can be added through extensions, created by third-party developers. Firefox uses a sandbox security model, and limits scripts from accessing data from other web sites based on the same origin policy
About plugin-container.exe (from Mozilla Corporation)
“Mozilla Firefox is a fast, full-featured Web browser. Firefox includes pop-up blocking, tab-browsing, integrated Google search, simplified privacy controls, a streamlined browser window that shows you”
Details
| File name: | plugin-container.exe |
| Publisher: | Mozilla Corporation |
| Product name: | Firefox |
| Description: | Plugin Container for Firefox |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe |
| File version: | 6.0.2 |
| Size: | 16.46 KB (16,856 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Mozilla Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Monday, September 27, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, October 30, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.500324 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source is a web browser coordinated by Mozilla Corporation and Mozilla Foundation that is a heavily localized. Firefox uses the Gecko layout engine to render web pages, which implements current and anticipated web standards. Functions can be added through extensions, created by third-party developers and thus provides an environment for web developers in which they can use built-in tools. Firefox uses ...
Mozilla released its Mozilla Firefox 6.0 August 16, 2011. The update brought: permissions manager, new address bar highlighting (the domain name is black while the rest of the URL is gray), streamlining the look of the site identity block, quicker startup time, a ScratchPad JavaScript compiler, and many other new features. This update also brought the infamous feature that JavaScript entered in the address bar does not run. Mozilla Fire...
Mozilla released its Mozilla Firefox 6.0 August 16, 2011. The update brought: permissions manager, new address bar highlighting (the domain name is black while the rest of the URL is gray), streamlining the look of the site identity block, quicker startup time, a ScratchPad JavaScript compiler, and many other new features. This update also brought the infamous feature that JavaScript entered in the address bar does not run. Mozilla Fire...
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\plugin-container.exe'
Scheduled tasks
- Entry path '\{94E20C9F-C61C-4D99-888B-EDE08F825D76}'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.30563328% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.19786649% | |
| User CPU: | 0.10776679% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 210 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 3 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 15.31 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 10.55 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 10.55 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 15.31 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 80.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 81.27 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.44 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 19.96 MB | |
| Page faults: | 5,344/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.46 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 176 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 3/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2.77 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 93/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 163 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 10 | |
Process properties
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\plugin-container.exe" --channel=1600.29c2c50.929276137 "C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\npswf32.dll" - -greomni "C:\Program Files\mozilla firefox\omni.jar" 1600 "\\.\pipe\gecko-crash-server-pipe.1600" plugin |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | firefox.exe (Firefox by Mozilla Corporation) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
25.50% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
21.50% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
20.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
9.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
3.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
3.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 41.50% of Firefox.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
29.66% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.45% |
|
| ASUS |
13.69% |
|
| Acer |
11.03% |
|
| Toshiba |
9.13% |
|
| American Megatrends |
5.32% |
|
| Lenovo |
3.04% |
|
| Sony |
3.04% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.28% |
|
| Intel |
2.28% |
|
| Sahara |
1.90% |
|
| Gateway |
1.52% |
|
| Samsung |
1.52% |
|
| Medion |
0.76% |
|
| Packard Bell |
0.38% |
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