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What is ffhelper.exe?

Part of ffHelper Application by Visicom Media

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What is it?

This is a Visicom toolbar installed in your Web browser that collects and stores information about web browsing habits including pages visited and search queries performed and sends this information to Visicom so they can suggest services or provide various forms of advertisements via the toolbar.
Description of ffhelper.exe from Visicom Media
“Visicom Media Toolbars use the DTX toolbar technology platform, an Ajax framework to develop toolbars and other extensions for Web browsers.”
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How does ffhelper.exe run?

Process - ffhelper.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account.

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What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.6% of all Boost users have the ffhelper.exe process running.Of the 0.6% of ffhelper.exe users, 86.0% have disabled it.
How resource intensive is ffhelper.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00848% CPU84791.3%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
     1.2 MB RAM5.6%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
              16 GDI objects10.7%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
60 context switches/sec60.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\mystarttb\ffhelper.exe
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What programs install ffhelper.exe?

MyStart Toolbar (by Visicom Media Inc.)
Photopos Toolbar by Visicom Media inc. - Photopos Toolbar is a Visicom toolbar installed in your Web browser that collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Visicom so they can suggest services or provide ads vi
Program URL: software.visicommedia.com/
Install path: C:\Program Files\photopostb
DealBrowsing Toolbar by Visicom Media inc. - DealBrowsing Toolbar is a Visicom Media (VMN) toolbar that integrates with major web browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The toolbar is an ad-supported program that is designed to display adv
Program URL: toolbar.dealbrowsing.com/
Install path: C:\Program Files\dealbrowsingyatb
Size: 2.69 MB
MyStart Toolbar by Visicom Media inc. - MyStart Toolbar is a Visicom Media (VMN) toolbar that integrates with major web browsers including Google Chrome, Firefox and Internet Explorer. The toolbar is an ad-supported program that is designed to display advertis
Program URL: apps.mystart.com/
Install path: C:\Program Files\mystartggtb

What else is related?

panda_url_filtering.dll (Anti-phishing Domain Advisor (Powered by Panda Security) by Visicom Media)
panda_url_filtering.exe (Anti-phishing Domain Advisor (Powered by Panda Security) by Visicom Media)
visic_coupon.dll (Visicom Coupon Plugin by Visicom Media)
dtuser.exe (DTX broker by Visicom Media)
toolbarcleaner.exe (Toolbar Cleaner by Visicom Media)
toolbarcleaner.exe (App Cleaner by Visicom Media)
air3e10.exe (Blekko search bar by Visicom Media)
dtuser.exe (DtUser by Visicom Media)
mystarttb.exe (MyStart Toolbar by Visicom Media)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Ultimate N (6.1.7601.65536)

About Visicom Media Inc.

Visicom Media Network or VMN.net is a Web portal with a number of free services for users. Its headquarters is in Brossard, Quebec. The domain VMN.net was ranke More...

File details

File name: ffhelper.exe
Publisher: Visicom Media Inc.
Name: ffHelper Application
Description: Helper Application for IE and Firefox
Version: 1, 0, 0, 6
Size: 76 KB
Original file name: ffHelper.exe

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0104064066%
Privileged CPU: 0.0019272807%
User CPU: 0.00847912581726%
Privileged CPU time: 65.09 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms
CPU cycle count: 205,094,432
Context switches /sec: 60
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 50.57 MB
Peak committed memory: 51.4 MB
Paged memory: 1.2 MB
Peak paged memory: 1.2 MB
Paged system memory: 50.38 KB
Non-paged system memory: 3.71 KB
Working set memory: 2.54 MB
Peak working set memory: 5.19 MB
Min working set memory: 2.54 MB
Private memory: 1.2 MB
Page faults: 2,593
Page faults /min: 0
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 16
Peak GDI objects: 17
USER objects: 7
Peak USER objects: 7
Resources
Handle count average: 60
Thread count average: 2
Thread resource averages
gdiplus.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: High
Windows platform: 32-bit
Process Commands
"C:\Program Files\mystartcv4tb\ffHelper.exe" "MyStart Toolbar"
"C:\Program Files\mystarttb\ffHelper.exe" "MyStart Toolbar"

Image hashes

MD5: 5b01f66ee4f4a2150c7feea8d4afc12d
SHA-1: 8a231a466c4204dc280656cebd19110b1db4caae
SHA-256: 879679fd5d4488f01222c06139e7a054fe82dce692700d034778f719ff779a67

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
File packed: No
Import Table
gdi32.dll
gdiplus.dll
kernel32.dll
ole32.dll
shell32.dll
user32.dll
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