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45% of PCs block this file from running.
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Performance resource utilization
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uTorrent.exe
µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 3.3.0.29126 |
| MD5: | 35238d8e052c7cfdde63e6c11ce852fa |
| SHA1: | 8724c59a257e11a4d91c2b891297c16549255221 |
| SHA256: | 6453d431431ec8ccb8b859e079062750a7f50f0b6f4266ebbed97a36f45013a1 |
Overview
utorrent.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. 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). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including µTorrent published by BitTorrent Inc., µTorrent from BitTorrent Inc. and µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc..
Details
| File name: | utorrent.exe |
| Publisher: | BitTorrent Inc. |
| Product name: | µTorrent |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\utorrent\utorrent.exe |
| File version: | 3.3.0.29126 |
| Size: | 1 MB (1,051,984 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | BitTorrent Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, June 21, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, July 27, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | Yes |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe'
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'uTorrent' → "C:\Program Files\uTorrent\uTorrent.exe" /MINIMIZED
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[TCP] 188.17.13.195:50507
[TCP] static-mum-120.63.211.32.mtnl.net.in (120.63.211.32:49730)
[UDP] listens on port 63459
[UDP] listens on port 61440
[UDP] listens on port 55809
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02944608% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00809834% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02134773% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 7,563,548 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 20,700,069/sec | |
| Context switches: | 97/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 16.17 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 26.9 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 18.96 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 16.17 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 201.51 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 230.33 MB | |
| Working set: | 24 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 27.33 MB | |
| Page faults: | 41,265/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 486.15 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 24/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 44.43 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 18.27 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 962/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 24 | |
| Handles: | 657 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 288 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 300 | |
| GUI USER count: | 132 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 144 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\users\user\desktop\utorrent-3-3-0-29126.exe" /minimized
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\utorrent\utorrent.exe"
- "C:\users\user\appdata\roaming\utorrent\utorrent.exe" /minimized
|
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | explorer.exe (Windows Explorer by Microsoft Corporation) |
Threads
Averages
| uTorrent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03262781% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01728334% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01534448% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,236,816/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.54 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00981494% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00981494% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 52,362/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00069952% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00043720% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00026232% | |
| CPU cycles: | 11,491/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.36 MB | |
| SSDPAPI.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00034982% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00034982% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,640/sec | |
| Memory: | 52 KB | |
| WININET.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00017246% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00017246% | |
| CPU cycles: | 20,112/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.11 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
22.34% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.80% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
19.80% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
7.11% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
6.09% |
|
| Windows 8 |
5.08% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
4.06% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
3.05% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.54% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.03% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
2.03% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
2.03% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.02% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.02% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.51% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.51% |
|
| Windows Developer Preview |
0.51% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation |
0.51% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 25.89% of µTorrent.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
20.81% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.65% |
|
| ASUS |
15.38% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.14% |
|
| Lenovo |
7.24% |
|
| Acer |
6.79% |
|
| Sony |
5.43% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.52% |
|
| American Megatrends |
4.07% |
|
| Intel |
3.62% |
|
| Samsung |
2.71% |
|
| MSI |
1.81% |
|
| Alienware |
1.36% |
|
| Packard Bell |
0.45% |
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