Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
| 18,1,7,644 |
1.87% |
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| 18,1,7,598 |
0.93% |
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| 18,1,0,443 |
0.93% |
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| 18,0,5,292 |
0.93% |
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| 18,0,5,292 |
0.93% |
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| 17,3,2,101 |
0.93% |
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| 17,3,0,49 |
0.93% |
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| 17, 1, 2, 1 |
0.93% |
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| 17, 1, 2, 1 |
1.87% |
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| 17, 1, 0, 27 |
0.93% |
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| 17, 0, 1, 12 |
10.28% |
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| 17, 0, 1, 12 |
9.35% |
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| 17, 0, 0, 12 |
2.80% |
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| 17, 0, 0, 12 |
7.48% |
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| 15, 5, 0, 2 |
3.74% |
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| 15, 5, 0, 2 |
3.74% |
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| 15, 4, 0, 5 |
2.80% |
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| 15, 4, 0, 5 |
1.87% |
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| 15, 3, 0, 11 |
12.15% |
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| 15, 3, 0, 11 |
6.54% |
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| 15, 2, 0, 5 |
15.89% |
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| 15, 2, 0, 5 |
10.28% |
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| 15, 1, 0, 2 |
1.87% |
|
Relationships
Parent process
Child process
toolbarupdater.exe
ToolbarU Application by AVG Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 15, 3, 0, 11 |
| MD5: | 254e8f9ba44e9f55416b0e51dbff3c5f |
| SHA1: | cbb204f6486b2355dde2ab9630ad9a31c265f3e8 |
| SHA256: | d19040f142eb3ae4876291e395556dc859ae1e4cbf074ebc5a07b99db31c85ca |
Overview
toolbarupdater.exe runs as a service under the name vToolbarUpdater18.1.0 (vToolbarUpdater17.1.0) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by AVG Technologies which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | toolbarupdater.exe |
| Publisher: | AVG Secure Search |
| Product name: | ToolbarU Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\avg secure search\vtoolbarupdater\15.2.0\toolbarupdater.exe |
| Original name: | ToolbarU.exe |
| File version: | 15, 3, 0, 11 |
| Size: | 1.52 MB (1,598,128 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/12/2013 5:54 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AVG Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- vToolbarUpdater18.1.0
- 'vToolbarUpdater17.1.0'
- 'vToolbarUpdater17.0.12'
- 'vToolbarUpdater15.3.0'
- 'vToolbarUpdater15.2.0'
Network connections
[TCP] a23-56-7-117.deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com (23.56.7.117:80)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00247106% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00157283% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00089823% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 572,451 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 43,075/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.84 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.66 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.34 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.84 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 70.87 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 77.37 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.67 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.66 MB | |
| Page faults: | 6,269/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 112 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 515 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 283 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 24/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 199 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\avg secure search\vtoolbarupdater\15.3.0\toolbarupdater.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | vToolbarUpdater17.1.0 |
| Display name: | vToolbarUpdater18.1.0 |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00672658% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00373699% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00298959% | |
| CPU cycles: | 165,938/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| sechost.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00125573% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00100459% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00025115% | |
| CPU cycles: | 20,012/sec | |
| Memory: | 100 KB | |
| ToolbarUpdater.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00051693% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00049899% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001794% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,406/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.54 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
33.96% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
27.36% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
11.32% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.55% |
|
| Windows 8 |
6.60% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
4.72% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.89% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.89% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.94% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
0.94% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.94% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
0.94% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.94% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 39.42% of ToolbarU Application.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
23.62% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.96% |
|
| ASUS |
12.60% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.60% |
|
| Dell |
11.02% |
|
| Sony |
6.30% |
|
| Lenovo |
4.72% |
|
| Gateway |
3.15% |
|
| Intel |
3.15% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.36% |
|
| Compaq |
1.57% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.57% |
|
| Samsung |
1.57% |
|
| Alienware |
0.79% |
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