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toolwizcares.exe
Toolwiz Care by XII CNC Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 2.0.0.0 |
| MD5: | ea024fc179766ad86cec653a4c72b78c |
| SHA1: | 9970bd5aa4488c1adb490477815872de52067280 |
| SHA256: | 8c990e1db2e98b79d538af71fff3f47d0bc2a03e75e3b1cde0f460b94a28b3d6 |
Overview
toolwizcares.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). This is typically installed with the program Toolwiz Care published by ToolWiz. The file is digitally signed by XII CNC Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | toolwizcares.exe |
| Publisher: | Toolwiz |
| Product name: | Toolwiz Care |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\toolwizcarefree\toolwizcares.exe |
| Original name: | Toolwiz.exe |
| File version: | 2.0.0.0 |
| Product version: | 2.0 |
| Size: | 4.95 MB (5,191,936 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | XII CNC Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“ToolWiz Care is a set of free-of-charge tools designed to speed up your PC and give your system a full range of care. With multi-functional optimization suite, this software provides a collection of tools that includes System Check-up, System Clean-up, System Speed-up, System Fix-up, System Back-up, System Satrtup Optimizer, System Virtualization and other 50+ powerful built-in utilities to enhance PC performance, security, and to opti...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'ToolwizCareFree' → "C:\Program Files\ToolwizCareFree\ToolwizCares.exe" -autorun
Scheduled tasks
- Entry path '\ToolwizCareFree'
Scheduled tasks startups
Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)
- Login entry path '\ToolwizCareFree'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00597818% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00364738% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00233080% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 8,969 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 425/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 29.35 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 37.39 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.77 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 29.35 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 110.78 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 118.25 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.02 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 40.63 MB | |
| Page faults: | 349,195/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 434.04 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 11.21 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 18.77 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 787/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 332 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 241 | |
| GUI USER count: | 89 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| ToolwizCares.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.04304045% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01185676% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03118368% | |
| Context switches: | 212/sec | |
| Memory: | 5.31 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00071142% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00047428% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00023714% | |
| Memory: | 1.64 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
75.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
12.50% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
12.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 62.50% of Toolwiz Care.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
40.00% |
|
| Toshiba |
20.00% |
|
| ASUS |
20.00% |
|
| American Megatrends |
10.00% |
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| Acer |
10.00% |
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