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What is facebookupdate.exe?

Part of Facebook Update by Facebook

What is it?

Facebook Update Application is the software updater 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. Easy Photo Uploader is a shell menu extension and a software. Directly from the windows file explorer, select your picture(s), right click and select the menu item "Send your photo(s) to Facebook"
Description of facebookupdate.exe from Facebook
“Send pictures as a batch directly from windows explorer, Facebook has become so popular and people like to share their pictures with friends and family, so you need a quick software to upload new photo albums. It works like a batch uploader for Facebook albums. As we are very lazy users, we spent a few hours to make this freeware available for all people which wants to save time and share even more pictures in Facebook.”
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How does facebookupdate.exe run?

Process - facebookupdate.exe is an instance of a running program. This 64-bit program executes with the privileges as the currently logged in user account. facebookupdate.exe is executed by the process taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft).

How does facebookupdate.exe start?

Startup files (user) run - facebookupdate.exe is registered with the run identifier 'Facebook Update' and the execution command '"C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe" /c /nocrashserver' 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 - facebookupdate.exe is launched automatically by registering itself into the Windows Task Scheduler under the task name '\FacebookUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-251200185-1914221410-2833951592-1000Core'. 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.

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What is the community is seeing?What is the community is doing?
About 0.2% of all Boost users have the facebookupdate.exe process running.Of the 0.2% of facebookupdate.exe users, 84.0% have disabled it.
How resource intensive is facebookupdate.exe?
Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.
1.64023% CPU16402347.5%
Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.
          3.07 MB RAM14.2%
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.
         10 GDI objects6.7%
Average number of GUI GDI and USER objects for all programs is 150.
Typical file (disk image) location:
C:\users\user\appdata\local\facebook\update\facebookupdate.exe

Are there other versions of Facebook Update?

facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.205.0
facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.205.0 (this)
facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.205.0
facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.205.0
facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.205.0
facebookupdate.exe - version 1.2.203.0
Why are multiple of the same versions listed?

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 Facebook Update.
goopdate.dll (Facebook Update by Facebook)

What else is related?

facebookupdate.exe (Facebook Update by Facebook)
newtonsoft.json.dll (Json.NET by Facebook)
npfacebookphotouploader.dll (Facebook Photo Uploader by Facebook)
newtonsoft.json.dll (Json.NET by Facebook)
cefsharp.winforms.dll (by Facebook)
icudt.dll (International Components for Unicode by Facebook)
libcef.dll (Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) Dynamic Link Library by Facebook)
cefsharp.dll (by Facebook)
npfbdesktopplugin.dll (Facebook Desktop by Facebook)
facebookmessenger.exe (Facebook Messenger by Facebook)
imageuploader5.ocx (Facebook Photo Uploader 5 by Facebook)
photouploader55.ocx (Facebook Photo Uploader 5 by Facebook)
photouploader5.ocx (Facebook Photo Uploader 5 by Facebook)
taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft)
explorer.exe (Explorador de Windows by Microsoft)

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 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 Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Professional (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Starter (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Home Premium (6.1.7600.0)
Windows 7 Ultimate (6.1.7600.0)

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File details

File name: facebookupdate.exe
Publisher: Facebook Inc. (verified)
Name: Facebook Update
Description: Facebook Installer
Version: 1.2.205.0
Size: 134.86 KB
Original file name: FacebookUpdate.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Facebook
Certificate authority: VeriSign
Expiration date: 6/20/2015

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages
Total CPU: 1.7868060053%
Privileged CPU: 0.1465712523%
User CPU: 1.64023475309073%
Privileged CPU time: 18211.6 ms
Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms
CPU cycle count: 420,428,145
CPU cycle count /min: 484,296
Memory utilization averages
Committed memory: 63.3 MB
Peak committed memory: 65.25 MB
Paged memory: 3.07 MB
Peak paged memory: 3.1 MB
Paged system memory: 104.33 KB
Non-paged system memory: 9.73 KB
Working set memory: 1.27 MB
Peak working set memory: 6.71 MB
Min working set memory: 1.27 MB
Private memory: 3.07 MB
Page faults: 3,063
Page faults /min: 5
Process I/O averages
Total read operations: 24
Read operations /min: 1
Total read transfer: 85.12 KB
Read transfer /min: 13 Bytes
Total write operations: 3
Write operations /min: 1
Total write transfer: 289 Bytes
Write transfer /min: 0 Bytes
Total other operations: 1,475
Other operations /min: 2
Total other transfer: 59.38 KB
Other Transfer /min: 16 Bytes
GUI Object Averages
GDI objects: 10
Peak GDI objects: 11
USER objects: 5
Peak USER objects: 5
Resources
Handle count average: 177
Thread count average: 6
Thread resource averages

Process details

Runs as (owner): User
Integrety level: Undefined
Windows platform: 64-bit
Parent Processes
taskeng.exe (Task Scheduler Engine by Microsoft)
explorer.exe (Sistema operativo Microsoft® Windows® by Microsoft)
explorer.exe (Microsoft® Windows® İşletim Sistemi by Microsoft)
Process Commands
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe /ua /installsource scheduler
"C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe" /c /nocrashserver
"C:\Documents and Settings\Ruben Baptista\Configuración local\Datos de programa\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe" /c /nocrashserver
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe /c /nocrashserver
C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe /c /nocrashserver

Startup files (user) run details

Name: Facebook Update
Command: "C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Facebook\Update\FacebookUpdate.exe" /c /nocrashserver

Scheduled task details

Name: FacebookUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-402932088-1460617023-881564081-1000UA
Command: \FacebookUpdateTaskUserS-1-5-21-402932088-1460617023-881564081-1000UA

Image hashes

MD5: 2a3fb4c98f139038e23330d2439db8a4
SHA-1: d33c799d1d26e00cc2d843ac4a94be78fdfcf9da
SHA-256: de9253ad362b03fa5d3d4912662398e5c4ac76f7274b83e51c251a6921a5b838

PE image details

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