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What is tbnotifier.exe?

Part of Ask TBNotifier by APN

Description of tbnotifier.exe from APN

“The Ask Toolbar Notifier is a client process which runs as part of the Ask Toolbar. The Notifier's job is to help instruct you during the toolbar installation and browser upgrades on your computer. ”

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How does tbnotifier.exe run?

Process - tbnotifier.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account.

How does tbnotifier.exe start?

Startup files (all users) run - tbnotifier.exe is registered with the run identifier 'ApnTBMon' and the execution command '"C:\Program Files\AskPartnerNetwork\Toolbar\Updater\TBNotifier.exe"' in the Windows registry HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Run keys are startup registry keys that are used to launch an application automatically when any Windows user logs into Windows.

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What is the community is seeing?	What is the community is doing?
About 0.4% of all Boost users have the tbnotifier.exe process running.	Of the 0.4% of tbnotifier.exe users, 86.0% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is tbnotifier.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.03451% CPU345144.0%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

3.82 MB RAM17.7%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

20 /min0.9%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

9 GDI objects6.0%

Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\askpartnernetwork\toolbar\updater\tbnotifier.exe

Are there other versions of Ask TBNotifier?

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.6.0.3083

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.4.2.2430 (this)

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.4.1.1692

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.2.0.1139

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.1.0.607

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.0.1.478

tbnotifier.exe - version 31.0.0.44

tbnotifier.exe - version 30.5.0.871

tbnotifier.exe - version 30.3.2.456

tbnotifier.exe - version 30.3.0.3831

tbnotifier.exe - version 30.1.0.2671

tbnotifier.exe - version 11.3.0.1794

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 Ask TBNotifier.

winhttp.dll (Windows HTTP Services by Microsoft)

What else is related?

vntldr.exe (Virtual New Tab by APN LLC)

chromeutilplugin.dll (ChromeUtilPlugin by APN)

searchresultsdx.dll ( dtx Dynamic Link Library by APN LLC)

toolbar.dll (Toolbar by APN LLC)

so.dll (Object Model by APN LLC)

toolbarps.dll (Toolbar PS by APN LLC)

servicelocator.exe (Service Locator by APN LLC)

toolbar.exe (Toolbar Core by APN LLC)

searchhook.dll (Search Hook by APN LLC)

passport.dll (Passport by APN LLC)

apnmcp.exe (APN Updater by APN LLC)

searchresultstb.dll (DTX Toolbar by APN LLC)

searchresultsdx.dll ( dtx Dynamic Link Library by APN LLC)

registryaccess.dll (registryAccess by APN)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7601.65536)

Windows 8.1 (6.2.9200.0)

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File details

File name: tbnotifier.exe

Publisher: APN

Name: Ask TBNotifier

Description: Ask Toolbar Notifier

Version: 31.4.2.2430

Original file name: TBNotifier.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: APN LLC

Certificate authority: VeriSign

Effective date: 4/16/2012

Expiration date: 4/9/2015

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0373361832%

Privileged CPU: 0.0028217852%

User CPU: 0.03451439791659%

Privileged CPU time: 484.38 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 6 ms

CPU cycle count: 1,268,749,972

CPU cycle count /min: 15,469,410

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 116.3 MB

Peak committed memory: 125.14 MB

Paged memory: 3.82 MB

Peak paged memory: 4.24 MB

Paged system memory: 208.33 KB

Non-paged system memory: 21.64 KB

Working set memory: 11.89 MB

Peak working set memory: 12.33 MB

Min working set memory: 10.57 MB

Private memory: 3.82 MB

Page faults: 4,057

Page faults /min: 49

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 23

Read operations /min: 1

Total read transfer: 103.85 KB

Read transfer /min: 1.27 KB

Total other operations: 1,496

Other operations /min: 18

Total other transfer: 34.44 KB

Other Transfer /min: 430 Bytes

GDI objects: 9

Peak GDI objects: 11

USER objects: 15

Peak USER objects: 16

Resources

Handle count average: 292

Thread count average: 13

Thread resource averages

tbnotifier.exe

Process details

Runs as (owner): User

Windows platform: 64-bit

Process Command

"C:\Program Files\AskPartnerNetwork\Toolbar\Updater\TBNotifier.exe"

Startup files (all users) run details

Name: ApnTBMon

Command: "C:\Program Files\AskPartnerNetwork\Toolbar\Updater\TBNotifier.exe"

Image hashes

MD5: cc514a238a2993138ac84f345a40d0f7

SHA-1: fdaccc8ae42fba9ca5e806cf59cfb70faaad31f6

PE image details

Import Table

advapi32.dll View import functions for advapi32.dll

crypt32.dll View import functions for crypt32.dll

gdi32.dll

gdiplus.dll View import functions for gdiplus.dll

kernel32.dll

msimg32.dll View import functions for msimg32.dll

ole32.dll

oleacc.dll View import functions for oleacc.dll

psapi.dll

shell32.dll View import functions for shell32.dll

shlwapi.dll View import functions for shlwapi.dll

user32.dll View import functions for user32.dll

version.dll View import functions for version.dll

wininet.dll View import functions for wininet.dll

wintrust.dll View import functions for wintrust.dll

wtsapi32.dll View import functions for wtsapi32.dll

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