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What is googleupdaterservice.exe?

Part of Google Updater 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 Updater is a Windows Service 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 googleupdaterservice.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 googleupdaterservice.exe run?

Service - googleupdaterservice.exe runs as a background Windows service called 'gusvc' (Google Software Updater). This service runs as the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. Google Software Updater runs as a program that can be started by the Service Controller and that obeys the service control protocol. This type of service runs in a process by itself.

How does googleupdaterservice.exe start?

Scheduled task - googleupdaterservice.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\Google Software Updater'. 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.

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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 googleupdaterservice.exe process running.Of the 0.6% of googleupdaterservice.exe users, 90.0% have disabled it.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\Program Files\google\common\google updater\googleupdaterservice.exe

Are there other versions of Google Updater?

Why are multiple of the same versions listed?

What else is related?

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072)
Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (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)
Windows Vista (TM) Ultimate (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6002.131072)
Windows 7 Home Basic (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)

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File details

File name: googleupdaterservice.exe
Publisher: Google (verified)
Name: Google Updater
Description: gusvc
Version: 2.4.2617.4952.beta
Size: 189.48 KB
Original file name: GoogleUpdaterService.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Google Inc
Certificate authority: VeriSign
Expiration date: 7/10/2007

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 0.3225935059%
Privileged CPU: 0%
User CPU: 0.32259350593382%
Memory utilization averages
Min working set memory: 0 Bytes

Process details

Runs as (owner): System
Windows platform: 64-bit
Runs as a service: Yes
Parent Process
Process Command
"C:\Program Files\Google\Common\Google Updater\GoogleUpdaterService.exe"

Service details

Name: Google Software Updater
Service name: gusvc
Service type: Win32OwnProcess
Description: “Google Updater keeps your Google software up to date. If Google Updater Service is disabled or stopped, your Google software will not be kept up to date, meaning security vulnerabilities that may arise cannot be fixed and features may not work.”

Scheduled task details

Name: Google Software Updater
Command: \Google Software Updater

Image hashes

MD5: 5d4bc124faae6730ac002cdb67bf1a1c
SHA-1: a0518ff004e75f16aed891285b4d26a8bedcbf5b
SHA-256: 00294f4dc7d17f6dd2a22b9c3299bed40146ba45c972367154d20db502472551

PE image details

File packed: No
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