Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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Parent process
Child processes
vidalia.exe
Vidalia by vidalia-project.net
| Version: | 0.2.21 |
| MD5: | 66ba3032a29b09466408c69cb4190ab7 |
| SHA1: | 403c7efd589956f18bdaceb845d98aa4a014300f |
| SHA256: | 3b2beb0e875e92e79e66a4d13dd67c05f290f41467a4aa97d34b78a57f32992b |
Overview
vidalia.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 is installed with a couple of know programs including Polipo 1.0.4.1 published by Juliusz Chroboczek, µTorrent from BitTorrent Inc. and µTorrent by BitTorrent Inc..
Details
| File name: | vidalia.exe |
| Publisher: | vidalia-project.net |
| Product name: | Vidalia |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\vidalia relay bundle\vidalia\vidalia.exe |
| File version: | 0.2.21 |
| Size: | 5.95 MB (6,239,727 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
µTorrent is a is a free, ad-supported, lighter-weight BitTorrent client designed to consume less resources then the full BitTorrent version. Some uTorrent installs include potentially unwanted programs in the form of the Conduit Engine, which installs a toolbar, and makes homepage and default search engine changes to a user's web browser.
BitTorrent is a desktop application that allows you to work with torrent files.BitTorrent allows you to download files available as torrents, search torrent sites for music, videos, books, software and other free or public domain material. BitTorrent will modify system settings upon installation, making the Application the default application for handling torrent files, if you do not already have an program associated with torrent files...
Polipo is a lightweight forwarding and caching web proxy server. Polipo is HTTP 1.1-compliant, supports IPv4, IPv6, traffic filtering and privacy-enhancement. To minimize latency, Polipo both pipelines multiple resource requests and multiplexes multiple transactions onto the same TCP/IP connection. Polipo can be configured to use on-disk cache and serve cached content when offline, perform various forms of content filtering and serve as...
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Vidalia' → "C:\Program Files\Vidalia Relay Bundle\Vidalia\vidalia.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01556560% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01069615% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00486945% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 4,724,135 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 12,256,330/sec | |
| Context switches: | 329/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 28.28 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 38.16 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 14.96 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 28.28 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 140.04 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 150.73 MB | |
| Working set: | 29.86 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 40.66 MB | |
| Page faults: | 38,803/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 239 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 12.95 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 743/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 340 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 43 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 53 | |
| GUI USER count: | 26 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 39 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 1.82938210% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.21322863% | |
| User CPU: | 1.61615347% | |
| CPU cycles: | 42,000,870/sec | |
| Context switches: | 151/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| vidalia.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 1.33745252% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03607474% | |
| User CPU: | 1.30137777% | |
| CPU cycles: | 30,775,006/sec | |
| Context switches: | 62/sec | |
| Memory: | 5.36 MB | |
| msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.43583355% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.17268877% | |
| User CPU: | 0.26314478% | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,818,655/sec | |
| Context switches: | 87/sec | |
| Memory: | 688 KB | |
| mswsock.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.12060803% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.08771493% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03289310% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,920,629/sec | |
| Context switches: | 154/sec | |
| Memory: | 240 KB | |
| wow64cpu.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00011362% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011362% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,122/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
44.44% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
22.22% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
22.22% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
11.11% |
|
Distribution by country
Ireland installs about 22.22% of Vidalia.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
66.67% |
|
| American Megatrends |
16.67% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
16.67% |
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