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What is googleupdate.exe?

Part of Google Update by Google

What is it?

Google products use a process called Google Update to periodically check for updates. This process sends information, such as version number, language, operating system, and other installation or update-related details, back to Google servers. Google Installer is a program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
Description of googleupdate.exe from Google
To make sure that you're protected by the latest security updates, Google Chrome automatically updates whenever it detects that a new version of the browser is available. The update process happens in the background and doesn't require any action on your part. Google Chrome uses Google Update to keep you up to date with the latest and most secure version of Chrome. In order to provide greater transparency and to make the technology available to other applications, the Google Update technology is open source. Google Update periodically sends a non-unique four-letter tag to Google which contains information about how you obtained Google Chrome. This tag is not personally identifiable, does not encode any information about when you obtained Google Chrome, and is shared with everyone who obtained Google Chrome the same way. Google Update also sends other information that helps us understand how many people are using Chrome and how often they use it.
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How does googleupdate.exe run?

Service - googleupdate.exe runs as a background Windows service (gupdate1c9bf34c6a32016).

How does googleupdate.exe start?

Startup files (user) run - googleupdate.exe is registered with the run identifier 'Google Update' and the execution command '"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c' in the Windows registry HKCU\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run. Run keys are startup registry keys that are used to launch an application automatically when a user logs into Windows.
Scheduled task - googleupdate.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-2328753964-4212721568-1522285346-1000Core'. Task Scheduler provides the ability to schedule the launch of programs or scripts at pre-defined times or after specified time intervals or even with event-based triggers.
Scheduled tasks startup - googleupdate.exe is launched automatically when a user logs into Windows by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore'. With Scheduled Tasks, any script, program, or document can be configured to run when a user logs into the PC. These tasks start every time that Windows is booted and runs in the background.

Community

What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the googleupdate.exe process running.Of the 0.2% of googleupdate.exe users, 88.0% have disabled it.
How stable is Google Update?
Based on crash data discovered by Boost, stability is a measure of how sound this particular process and the average percent of times it crashes.
     googleupdate.exe0.03%
Typical program1.26%
How resource intensive is googleupdate.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
1.52277% CPU15227723.9%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
          3.6 MB RAM16.7%
Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.
 40 /min1.8%
Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.
         6 GDI objects4.0%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\google\update\googleupdate.exe

Are there other versions of Google Update?

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 Google Update.

What else is related?

Google Update Stability

googleupdate.exe crashes or has encountered a critical error 0.8900% of the time.
1.  
Error:    (APPCRASH)
Occurred: over 6 months ago
2.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Occurred: over 6 months ago
3.  
Error: Stopped working (APPCRASH)
Occurred: over 6 months ago

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Server 2003, Standard Edition (5.2.3790.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.2.3790.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6000.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.0.6000.0)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6001.65536)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6001.65536)
Windows Vista (TM) Business (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Basic (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)

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File details

File name: googleupdate.exe
Publisher: Google Inc. (verified)
Name: Google Update
Description: Google Installer
Version: 1.2.183.21
Size: 132.98 KB
Original file name: GoogleUpdate.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Google Inc
Certificate authority: VeriSign
Effective date: 6/18/2007
Expiration date: 6/18/2010

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 1.7239563268%
Privileged CPU: 0.2011839324%
User CPU: 1.52277239448715%
Privileged CPU time: 99850.5 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 17 ms
CPU cycle count: 320,524,884
CPU cycle count /min: 515,846
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 57.46 MB
Peak committed memory: 61.56 MB
Paged memory: 3.6 MB
Peak paged memory: 3.66 MB
Paged system memory: 87.75 KB
Non-paged system memory: 9.26 KB
Working set memory: 2.45 MB
Peak working set memory: 6.77 MB
Min working set memory: 2.45 MB
Private memory: 3.6 MB
Page faults: 4,076
Page faults /min: 3
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 33
Read operations /min: 1
Total read transfer: 74.21 KB
Read transfer /min: 108 Bytes
Total write operations: 21
Write operations /min: 1
Total write transfer: 4.26 KB
Write transfer /min: 0 Bytes
Total other operations: 2,779
Other operations /min: 4
Total other transfer: 72.39 KB
Other Transfer /min: 98 Bytes
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 6
Peak GDI objects: 10
USER objects: 3
Peak USER objects: 6
Resources
Handle count average: 160
Thread count average: 6
Thread resource averages
ntdll.dll
sechost.dll
ntdll.dll
normaliz.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Undefined
Windows platform: 32-bit
Runs as a service: Yes
Parent Processes
Child Processes
Process Commands
"C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c
"C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c
"C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /svc
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe /c
"C:\Program Files\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c

Startup files (user) run details

Name: Google Update
Command: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Google\Update\GoogleUpdate.exe" /c

Service details

Name: gupdate1c9bf34c6a32016

Scheduled task details

Name: GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-2893654356-1984079470-3101418554-1000UA
Command: \GoogleUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-2893654356-1984079470-3101418554-1000UA

Scheduled tasks startup details

Name: C:\WINDOWS\Tasks\GoogleUpdateTaskMachineCore1ce84615a736d32.job

Network connectivity

UDP: LISTENING on port 4021

Image hashes

MD5: f02a533f517eb38333cb12a9e8963773
SHA-1: 258810d71436c5157cd0752bd13ce1de20f27eb2
SHA-256: 1f72cd1cf660766fa8f912e40b7323a0192a300b376186c10f6803dc5efe28df

PE image details

File entropy: 5.81134
File packed: No
Import Table
advapi32.dll
kernel32.dll
ole32.dll
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