Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
| 5, 4, 5, 1 |
23.53% |
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| 5, 4, 5, 0 |
56.86% |
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| 5, 4, 3, 3 |
9.80% |
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| 5, 4, 3, 2 |
1.96% |
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| 5, 4, 2, 3 |
5.88% |
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| 5, 0, 1, 0 |
1.96% |
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Relationships
VCDDaemon.exe
Virtual CloneDrive by Elaborate Bytes AG (Signed)
| Version: | 5, 4, 5, 0 |
| MD5: | 2a21fe60a9bc5247bd8c57409a2b97f8 |
| SHA1: | 7eae3b5b46d35486f1099076c884c5c4989637b0 |
| SHA256: | 6c9851684fb90ab6038a326f4b362c1948df2173063ca198dceaea6bfac636e0 |
What is VCDDaemon.exe?
Elaborate's Virtual CloneDrive is a freeware applications that provides the ability to put files created by CloneDVD in use by playing them like normal DVDs by creating virtual drives.
About VCDDaemon.exe (from Elaborate Bytes AG)
“Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your h”
Details
| File name: | vcddaemon.exe |
| Publisher: | Elaborate Bytes AG |
| Product name: | Virtual CloneDrive |
| Description: | Virtual CloneDrive Daemon |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\elaborate bytes\virtualclonedrive\vcddaemon.exe |
| File version: | 5, 4, 5, 0 |
| Product version: | 5, 4, 0, 0 |
| Size: | 87.36 KB (89,456 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Elaborate Bytes AG |
| Authority (CA): | GlobalSign nv-sa |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, December 23, 2008 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, December 23, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“Virtual CloneDrive works and behaves just like a physical CD/DVD drive, however it exists only virtually. Image files generated with CloneDVD or CloneCD can be mounted onto a virtual drive from your hard-disk or from a network drive and used in the same manner as inserting them into a normal CD/DVD drive.”
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'VirtualCloneDrive' → "C:\Program Files\Elaborate Bytes\VirtualCloneDrive\VCDDaemon.exe" /s
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00015542% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00010593% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004948% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 131,717 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,624/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.9 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.74 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.61 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.9 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 63.49 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 67.91 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.06 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.76 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,692/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 145 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 8 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 3/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 103 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 20 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 21 | |
| GUI USER count: | 8 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 8 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
34.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
22.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
14.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
6.00% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
6.00% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
4.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
4.00% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 40.00% of Virtual CloneDrive.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
27.59% |
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| Dell |
20.69% |
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| Toshiba |
17.24% |
|
| Lenovo |
13.79% |
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| Sony |
6.90% |
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| Intel |
6.90% |
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| Acer |
3.45% |
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| GIGABYTE |
3.45% |
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