SearchSettings.exe
Widgi Toolbar by Spigot (Signed)
| Version: | 7, 6, 0, 2 |
| MD5: | c99645952fda42584fe101c0b90d979a |
| SHA1: | 375c716b1b4ccc3b9bef36fa2c4e92e9845b606c |
| SHA256: | ac72f05aca579fc8bae3e4f148efcb8a0f923068f95faa998233832edfbedca7 |
What is SearchSettings.exe?
The Widgi Search Settings Toolbar is a toolbar built on the spigot platform. The toolbar is usually installed together with other software. Typically, PC owner is not careful enough and leave some checkboxes unchecked. That is how one of such Widgi toolbars land on their browser. The Widgi Toolbar displays advertisements, or change your browsers default search provider.
About SearchSettings.exe (from Spigot)
“The Spigot Search Settings is an application which is part of the Spigot Toolbar. Spigot searchsettings.exe's purpose is to check periodically your default search engine and restore it to Yahoo in cas”
Details
| File name: | searchsettings.exe |
| Publisher: | Spigot, Inc. |
| Product name: | Widgi Toolbar |
| Description: | Search Settings |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\spigot\search settings\searchsettings.exe |
| File version: | 7, 6, 0, 2 |
| Size: | 1.3 MB (1,360,192 bytes) |
| Build date: | 9/2/2013 12:02 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Spigot |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, March 28, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Installs a Spigot toolbar (YouTube Downloader Toolbar) in your Web browser that collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Spigot so they can suggest services or provide ads via the toolbar. YouTube Downloader Toolbar is free software that allows you to download YouTube videos, Facebook Video, Google Video, Yahoo Video (and many others) and convert YouTube videos to other video formats.
IObit Apps Toolbar is a web browser toolbar and extension that modifies the browsers search and home pages as well as delivers contextual based advertising. This toolbar currently supports Internet Explorer, Firefox and Chrome. In order to provide search advertising revenue, the software is designed not only to modify the search provider but to protect it so that it remains the default browser search engine. It is typically installed v...
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'SearchSettings' → "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Spigot\Search Settings\SearchSettings.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00115449% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00023301% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00092148% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,921,672,318 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,170,893/sec | |
| Context switches: | 277/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.75 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.04 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.74 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.75 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 90 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 97.07 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.82 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 12.73 MB | |
| Page faults: | 779,544/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 103.67 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 26/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 3.99 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 106 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 10/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 204 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 20 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 22 | |
| GUI USER count: | 18 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 19 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
22.03% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
22.03% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
18.64% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
15.25% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
5.08% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
5.08% |
|
| Windows 8 |
3.39% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
3.39% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.69% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.69% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.69% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 30.00% of Widgi Toolbar.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Acer |
25.00% |
|
| Toshiba |
22.22% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
19.44% |
|
| Dell |
11.11% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
8.33% |
|
| Compaq |
5.56% |
|
| ASUS |
5.56% |
|
| American Megatrends |
2.78% |
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