Should I block it?

40%

40% of PCs block this file from running.

Possible reason:

Performance resource utilization

Additional versions

21.2.0.1139	50.00%
20.1.0.3831	50.00%

Relationships

Toolbar.exe

Toolbar Core by APN LLC (Signed)

Remove Toolbar.exe

Version:	21.2.0.1139
MD5:	0186ae83358a378dc523bc250f0beeaf
SHA1:	6954360b0a4960a236ab6c925b5d97083afecf1d
SHA256:	57ac51551f045d42d0b0267d79085ac3fb8d82b30bb833b747ec9892615ee228

Overview

toolbar.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. The file is digitally signed by APN LLC which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	toolbar.exe
Publisher:	APN LLC.
Product name:	Toolbar Core
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\toolbar.exe
File version:	21.2.0.1139
Size:	258.45 KB (264,656 bytes)
Build date:	7/24/2013 10:00 PM
Certificate
Issued to:	APN LLC
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Sunday, April 15, 2012
Expiration date:	Wednesday, April 8, 2015
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:	Windows GUI
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Network connections

[UDP] listens on port 1078

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00014860%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00013203%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00001657%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	30,985 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	318.41 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	203.92 MB
Private (minimum):	65.81 MB
Non-paged memory:	318.41 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	460.02 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	468.57 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	179.59 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	206.65 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	218,103/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	4.88 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	4/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	206 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	333 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	13/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	13	12
Handles:	648	600
GUI GDI count:	414	103
GUI USER count:	196	49

Process properties

Integrety level:	Undefined
Platform:	32-bit
Command line:	"C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\toolbar.exe" -embedding
Owner:	User
Parent process:	svchost.exe (Generic Host Process for Win32 Services by Microsoft)

Threads

Averages

Toolbar.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.06007898%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00312993%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.05694905%	0.165382%
Memory:	272 KB	1.16 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00009807%
Kernel CPU:	0.00008298%
User CPU:	0.00001509%
Memory:	712 KB
WININET.dll
Total CPU:	0.00000549%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000274%
User CPU:	0.00000274%
Memory:	924 KB