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shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe
Shopping Sidekick Plugin by 215 Apps
| Version: | 1.1.151.5 |
| MD5: | 2a0147f4a8ad33663609438b785c634b |
| SHA1: | a084ff50bafbff42c86caf705c98e7a6f0b34cb9 |
| SHA256: | a8571b54625aac333da0ec6698d263e512241766a52794a0abc2bf26f07c96ae |
What is shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe?
Shopping Sidekick from 215 Apps (Amazing Apps) installs a web browser extension (Internet Explorer Browser Helper Object) to view web pages loaded and looks for affiliated merchants in order to possibly provide better pricing or alternative deals on a given product or merchant. If Shopping Sidekick (215 Apps) has a pre-arranged affiliate relationship with a similar merchant it will alert you when you visit through your web browser.
About shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe (from 215 Apps)
“Use ShoppingSidekick when you buy online and you can find coupons to apply directly to your order, without leaving the page! ShoppingSidekick is a browser add-on that seamlessly integrates with shoppi”
Details
| File name: | shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe |
| Publisher: | 215 Apps |
| Product name: | Shopping Sidekick Plugin |
| Description: | Shopping Sidekick Plugin exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\shopping sidekick plugin\shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe |
| Original name: | Shopping Sidekick Plugin.exe |
| File version: | 1.1.151.5 |
| Size: | 923 KB (945,152 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Shopping Sidekick Plugin by 215 Apps (50onRed) is a Browser Helper Object installed into Internet Explorer that monitors web pages for possible affiliate merchant partners. Shopping Sidekick will let you know when there are coupons by showing a counter in the top right of Web sites. Shopping Sidekick is an adware type program that has causes serious performance issues to your PC by installing a number of plug-ins and add-ins to your web...
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 55490
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00703072% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00249499% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00453573% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 4,384 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.92 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 14.97 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 14.85 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.92 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 102.18 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 107.93 MB | |
| Working set: | 14.88 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 16.98 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 193 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 10 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 8 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Low |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\shopping sidekick plugin\shopping sidekick plugin-bg.exe" /createbg |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | iexplore.exe (by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
100.00% |
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