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Samsung Magician.exe
Samsung Magician by Samsung Electronics Co. (Signed)
| Version: | 4, 0, 0, 111 |
| MD5: | a14f5ebe8d7ccf90141604ad714b0479 |
| SHA1: | adaae21d15670386e2e7406152de7944e9fdf092 |
| SHA256: | e20acaeb9f12ba60f1e9b938c588a113256fb84be05c5994ceec8e24ea9e9874 |
Overview
samsung magician.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. During installation, it (or a shortcut) is added to the user's startup folder which is designed to automatically launch when the user logs into Windows. This is typically installed with the program Samsung Magician published by Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.. The file is digitally signed by Samsung Electronics Co. which was issued by the GlobalSign nv-sa certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | samsung magician.exe |
| Publisher: | Samsung Electronics. |
| Product name: | Samsung Magician |
| Description: | Samsung Magician Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\samsung magician\samsung magician.exe |
| File version: | 4, 0, 0, 111 |
| Product version: | 4.0.0.5 |
| Size: | 2.84 MB (2,979,528 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Samsung Electronics Co. |
| Authority (CA): | GlobalSign nv-sa |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, October 9, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, October 10, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Samsung Electronics CO., LTD. |
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“The only way to update the firmware on your SSD is to use the SSD Magical Tool. The Samsung SSD Magician software facilitates easy maintenance and use of Samsung SSD products connected to a desktop or notebook computer. In addition to providing information about the user’s system and SSD product, Samsung SSD Magician also supports advanced features, like SSD performance management, benchmarking for optimum performance, new firmware upda...”
Behaviors
User start menu folder
Shortcut pointer placed in '%appdata%\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu'
- Shortcut to 'samsung magician.exe'
Network connections
[TCP] a173-223-207-41.deploy.akamaitechnologies.com (173.223.207.41:80)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00028465% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00018580% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00009885% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 969 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 16.16 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 37.11 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 35.42 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 16.16 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 148.61 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 170.73 MB | |
| Working set: | 37 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 37.11 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 14 | |
| Handles: | 963 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 206 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 209 | |
| GUI USER count: | 392 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 404 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\samsung magician\samsung magician.exe" /autohide |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
75.00% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
25.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 75.00% of Samsung Magician.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
80.00% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
20.00% |
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