Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
pccleaners.exe
PC Cleaners by PC Cleaners Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 10.11.0.0 |
| MD5: | 5fd9ec35e5e3e910e84ffcb3c3709a29 |
| SHA1: | c14e533bfd191de9ded4b074d980388df6187374 |
What is pccleaners.exe?
PC Cleaners is registry cleaner, a class of third party software utility designed for the Microsoft Windows operating system, whose purported purpose is to remove redundant items from the Windows registry. Registry cleaners in general try to automate the process of looking for invalid entries, missing file references or broken links within the registry and resolving or removing them.
About pccleaners.exe (from PC Cleaners Inc.)
“We believe computers are meant to speed things up, not slow things down, so you can work smarter and faster. You shouldn't have to waste time dealing with viruses, spyware, PC errors, Registry problem”
Details
| File name: | pccleaners.exe |
| Publisher: | PC Cleaners Inc. |
| Product name: | PC Cleaners |
| Description: | PC Cleaner |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\pc cleaners\pccleaners.exe |
| Original name: | PCGUI.exe |
| File version: | 10.11.0.0 |
| Size: | 49.76 MB (52,175,160 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | PC Cleaners Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, January 23, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, January 25, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 3.055778 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“With a single click, PC Cleaner will scan and clean all forms of malware which may be causes of PC issues and poor system performance! With our award winning, tested and certified Malware engine, PC Cleaner will clean all forms of threats including worms, trojans, rogues, dialers, spyware and more from your PC. PC Cleaner will remove unused and old entries, including File Extensions, ActiveX Controls, ClassIDs, ProgIDs, Uninstallers, Sh...”
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'PC Cleaners' → "C:\Program Files\PC Cleaners\PCCleaners.exe" /minimize
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 1774
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.03751495% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01415598% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02335897% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,454 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 56/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.57 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.39 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.51 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.57 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 125.68 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 212 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.95 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 38 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 9 | |
| Handles: | 386 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 674 | |
| GUI USER count: | 380 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\pc cleaners\pccleaners.exe" |
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | app24x7help.exe (24x7Help by Crawler) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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