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What is flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe?

Part of Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems

What is it?

Adobe Flash Player installer and uninstaller process that runs in the background. The Adobe Flash Player is software for viewing multimedia, Rich Internet Applications, and streaming video and audio, on a computer web browser or on supported mobile devices. Flash Player runs SWF files that can be created by the Adobe Flash authoring tool, by Adobe Flex or by a number of other Macromedia and third party tools.
Description of flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe from Adobe Systems
“Adobe Flash Player is the standard for delivering high-impact, rich Web content. Designs, animation, and application user interfaces are deployed immediately across all browsers and platforms, attracting and engaging users with a rich Web experience. The Adobe Flash Player runtime lets you effortlessly reach over 1.3 billion people across browsers and OS versions with no install.”
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How does flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe run?

Process - flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe is an instance of a running program. This 32-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe is executed by the process svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft).

How does flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe start?

Startup files (user) run once - flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe is registered with the run identifier 'FlashPlayerUpdate' and the execution command 'C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_4_402_287_ActiveX.exe -update activex' in the Windows registry HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce. RunOnce keys are used to launch a service or background process whenever a any PC user logs into Windows. Once the application is launched for the first time its entry will be removed from the Registry so it does not run again when a user logins again. Applications here are designed to be used primarily by Setup programs.

Community

What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.6% of all Boost users have the flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe process running.Of the 0.6% of flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe users, 10.0% have disabled it.
How resource intensive is flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
0.00827% CPU82668.3%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
          2.86 MB RAM13.3%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 3 /min0.1%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
         10 GDI objects6.7%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
          17 context switches/sec17.0%
Average context switches for all programs is 100 per second.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Windows\System32\macromed\flash\flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe

What modules are loaded?

A module is a dynamic link library (DLL) or an executable file that is loaded into the process. Below is a list of non-system modules that are loaded by Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller.
ieframe.dll (Windows® Internet Explorer by Microsoft)
ieframe.dll (Windows® Internet Explorer by Microsoft)
flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.dll (Flash Player Helper by Adobe Systems)

What else is related?

flashutil32_11_9_900_117_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_8_800_168_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_9_900_117_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_3_300_271_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_8_800_175_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_8_800_175_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_8_800_174_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_7_700_169_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_8_800_94_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_6_602_171_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_8_800_94_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_7_700_224_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_7_700_169_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_7_700_224_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_7_700_224_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_7_700_169_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_6_602_180_plugin.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_6_602_180_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_6_602_180_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil64_11_6_602_171_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_2_202_235_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)
flashutil32_11_6_602_171_activex.exe (Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller by Adobe Systems)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Starter (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate N (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7601.65536)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7601.65536)

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File details

File name: flashutil32_11_4_402_287_activex.exe
Publisher: Adobe Systems Incorporated (verified)
Name: Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller
Description: Adobe® Flash® Player Installer/Uninstaller 11.4 r402
Version: 11,4,402,287
Size: 675.93 KB
Original file name: FlashUtil.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Adobe Systems Incorporated
Certificate authority: VeriSign
Effective date: 9/23/2012
Expiration date: 10/1/2015

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.0184378113%
Privileged CPU: 0.0101709844%
User CPU: 0.00826682683476%
Privileged CPU time: 681.36 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 3 ms
CPU cycle count: 617,027,085
CPU cycle count /min: 12,782,026
Context switches /sec: 17
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 81.89 MB
Peak committed memory: 84.97 MB
Paged memory: 2.86 MB
Peak paged memory: 2.91 MB
Paged system memory: 143.56 KB
Non-paged system memory: 7.7 KB
Working set memory: 5.91 MB
Peak working set memory: 7.33 MB
Min working set memory: 5.7 MB
Private memory: 2.86 MB
Page faults: 4,078
Page faults /min: 9
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 120
Read operations /min: 2
Total read transfer: 91.06 KB
Read transfer /min: 594 Bytes
Total write operations: 16
Write operations /min: 1
Total write transfer: 118.84 KB
Write transfer /min: 6 Bytes
Total other operations: 5,159
Other operations /min: 44
Total other transfer: 60.18 KB
Other Transfer /min: 394 Bytes
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 10
Peak GDI objects: 10
USER objects: 3
Peak USER objects: 5
Resources
Handle count average: 137
Thread count average: 3
Thread resource averages
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll
ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Medium
Windows platform: 32-bit
Parent Processes
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft)
Process Commands
C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_4_402_287_ActiveX.exe -Embedding
C:\Windows\SysWOW64\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_4_402_287_ActiveX.exe -Embedding

Startup files (user) run once details

Name: FlashPlayerUpdate
Command: C:\Windows\system32\Macromed\Flash\FlashUtil32_11_4_402_287_ActiveX.exe -update activex

Image hashes

MD5: 8709c95e4ec55378d5bf27f02b0ed5a5
SHA-1: 061bd4db9afb3d3fd42523d1a174de6af8c4e4c6
SHA-256: 87c24b00e852e7eec18f5a86de9b83b7bf5838f29888dd6d59ddd14e8677a5cb

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
gdi32.dll
kernel32.dll
ole32.dll
oleacc.dll
shell32.dll
user32.dll
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