syntphelper.exe has 154 known versions, the most recent one is 17.0.8.9 04Sep13. syntphelper.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 122.85 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Synaptics Incorporated by the certification authority VeriSign. The programs Synaptics Pointing Device Driver, Synaptics TouchPad Driver and Synaptics WBF Driver 5011 (11) have been observed as installing specific variations of syntphelper.exe. This is a .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) assembly. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0002% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 1.31 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 2.73 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 94 Bytes per minute for reads and 1.35 KB per minute for writes.
Synaptics Pointing Device Helper for Synaptics Pointing device driver provides Windows based integration to various laptop touchpads including sensibility adjustment, tapping speed, button order, virtual scrollbar setup, etc. The Synaptics device driver is customized to meet the specific requirements of your device manufacturer.
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Synaptics Pointing Device Driver.)
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 7 of them detected the following malware.
United States installs about 45.23% of Synaptics Pointing Device Driver.