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coupon companion-bg.exe
Coupon Companion by Friendly Apps (Signed)
| Version: | 1.1.150.20 |
| MD5: | 36d141d4b497090ef2efcd5c27cc3758 |
| SHA1: | 5e574a2d1b9c2a930ed2253670de27f97080e270 |
| SHA256: | 22c3f96016b0f5415e36e8d41400d6da4eefc3760b1b90ceefa44ecc075fa1bf |
What is coupon companion-bg.exe?
Coupon Companion exe (coupon companion-bg.exe) is a background process that is loaded with Internet Explorer via the Coupon Companion BHO. Coupon Companion is an adware type program that has causes serious performance issues to your PC by installing a number of plug-ins and add-ins to your web browser and Windows. It injects ads directly by modifying web pages based on your surfing habits.
About coupon companion-bg.exe (from Friendly Apps)
“The Coupon Companion shopping companion will help save you money by finding and presenting the top active coupons for the site you're browsing. After installation Coupon Companion will let you know wh”
Details
| File name: | coupon companion-bg.exe |
| Publisher: | 215 Apps |
| Product name: | Coupon Companion |
| Description: | Coupon Companion exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\coupon companion\coupon companion-bg.exe |
| Original name: | Coupon Companion.exe |
| File version: | 1.1.150.20 |
| Size: | 877.38 KB (898,440 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Friendly Apps |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Monday, April 30, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, May 1, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.542899 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Coupon Companion by Awesome Apps (215 Apps/ run by 50OnRed) is a Browser Helper Object installed into Internet Explorer that monitors web pages for possible affiliate merchant partners. Coupon Companion will let you know when there are coupons by showing a counter in the top right of Web sites. Coupon Companion is an adware type program that has causes serious performance issues to your PC by installing a number of plug-ins and add-ins ...
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 2959
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02482928% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01401435% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01081493% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,312 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.25 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 1.71 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.16 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.25 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 51.46 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 57.47 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.5 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.99 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 195 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 8 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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