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VersionsAdditional versions

11.0.07.79 6.10%
11.0.06.70 1.22%
11.0.04.63 13.41%
11.0.03.37 6.10%
11.0.02.0 1.22%
11.0.01.36 8.54%
11.0.0.379 9.76%
10.1.8.24 3.66%
10.1.7.27 8.54%
10.1.6.1 1.22%
10.1.5.33 4.88%
10.1.4.38 15.85%
10.1.0.534 3.66%
10.0.0.396 1.22%
9.5.3.305 1.22%
9.5.2.295 4.88%
9.2.0.124 1.22%
9.0.0.2008061200 1.22%
8.3.1.289 1.22%
8.1.0.2007051100 2.44%
7.0.0.0 1.22%
6.0.1.2003110300 1.22%

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AcroRd32.exe

Adobe Reader by Adobe Systems (Signed)

Remove AcroRd32.exe
Version:   11.0.06.70
MD5:   ccda8e6a2ac68fd417a8bb8d88cbfdac
SHA1:   1607737dc0ec2d6906519724d4ebe9b3744e4bf1

What is AcroRd32.exe?

Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software developed by Adobe Systems to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF).

Overview

AcroRd32.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Adobe Reader XI MUI published by Adobe Systems Incorporated, Adobe Acrobat XI Pro from Adobe Systems Incorporated and Adobe Acrobat XI Pro by Adobe Systems Incorporated. The file is digitally signed by Adobe Systems which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

DetailsDetails

File name:AcroRd32.exe
Publisher:Adobe Systems Incorporated
Product name:Adobe Reader
Description:Adobe Reader 9.0
Typical file path:C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 9.0\reader\acrord32.exe
File version:11.0.06.70
Size:1.36 MB (1,423,224 bytes)
Build date:12/21/2013 12:36 AM
Certificate
Issued to:Adobe Systems
Authority (CA):VeriSign
Effective date:Monday, September 18, 2006
Expiration date:Thursday, November 5, 2009
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:Windows GUI
Entropy:5.351788
File packed:No
Code language:Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0
.NET CLR:No
More details

ResourcesPrograms

The following programs will install this file
Adobe Systems Incorporated
11% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat XI (version 11.0) are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. The graphical user i...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Acrobat is a set of application software to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. The graphical user interface for desktop systems is carri...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
5% remove
Adobe Reader is a program that is intended to give you the capability to read, edit and print the popular Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file type, as well as adding a whole host of functions on top of the basic reader. PDF files are a particularly professional looking file type that enables you to read texts in precisely the way that the original author intended. Both PDF files and Adobe Reader have become industry standards.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
3% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
4% remove
Whether you need to create, edit, or sign PDF documents, you can do it easier with Adobe® Acrobat® XI Standard — the solution that makes PDFs work harder so you don't have to. Build forms fast, convert PDFs to PowerPoint, and edit files intuitively with the latest version of Acrobat Pro. With Adobe® Acrobat® XI Standard, you can make minor edits to text and images right in your PDF file without requiring the original document or graphi...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Reader software is the free trusted standard for reliably viewing, printing, and annotating PDF documents. It’s the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all types of PDF content, including forms and multimedia.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
8% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
11% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
5% remove
Adobe Systems Incorporated
8% remove
Adobe Reader XI is an application designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
8% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
9% remove
Adobe Systems Incorporated
10% remove
Adobe Reader is a program that is intended to give you the capability to read, edit and print the popular Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) file type, as well as adding a whole host of functions on top of the basic reader. PDF files are a particularly professional looking file type that enables you to read texts in precisely the way that the original author intended. Both PDF files and Adobe Reader have become industry standards.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
9% remove
Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader XI are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
6% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
9% remove
Adobe Reader XI Font Pack enables you to display and interact with documents authored in languages other than those supported in your native Adobe Reader. It is needed to correctly display a document when an author does not embed the appropriate font into the document. It is also needed when the author does embed the font, but the reader of the document wishes to interact in some way with its content, for example, by collaborating, comm...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
10% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat XI (version 11.0) are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. The graphical user i...
Adobe Systems Incorporated
3% remove
Adobe Reader XI is an application designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program.
Adobe Systems Incorporated
5% remove
Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Acrobat XI (version 11.0) are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. The graphical user i...

BehaviorsBehaviors

Scheduled tasks
  • The task '{7BA77A3A-9000-4A31-AA85-9153D38FD7C7}' runs on registration in the path '\{7BA77A3A-9000-4A31-AA85-9153D38FD7C7}'
  • The job '{C38D5D8F-604E-43D3-8739-B66C1B490541}' runs on registration in the path '\{C38D5D8F-604E-43D3-8739-B66C1B490541}'
  • The job '{A5EA3B4C-A5F1-4E0E-8F40-35BCB2C35E59}' runs on registration in the path '\{A5EA3B4C-A5F1-4E0E-8F40-35BCB2C35E59}'
  • The task '{95B0BB98-D891-4F39-B1BF-E5875B328A92}' runs on registration in the path '\{95B0BB98-D891-4F39-B1BF-E5875B328A92}'
  • The job '{4BD76361-419D-4920-8936-F6F03D4420BA}' runs on registration in the path '\{4BD76361-419D-4920-8936-F6F03D4420BA}'
  • The task '{9F90E156-3443-4F55-BDE7-83312D6A3B97}' runs on registration in the path '\{9F90E156-3443-4F55-BDE7-83312D6A3B97}'
  • Entry path '\{BCBC90BC-7132-43D2-93A1-EB18C7AB46D2}'
  • Entry path '\{B6D33AB2-D5BE-4A57-84A7-1AD706526772}'
  • Entry path '\{951A0EC2-87B8-4DCA-88D3-96A448B71B78}'
  • Entry path '\{6BA3BAE6-9367-4952-B0C7-5AA62F8977DC}'
  • Entry path '\{56E820C4-C882-4899-9AE3-1810142BA6BA}'
  • Entry path '\{4A05E0BF-EDDF-4C3B-B51B-35C63CA19FC6}'
  • Entry path '\{2505ED7D-D0A4-4A7E-B9E8-5FFDFDB6F802}'
  • Entry path '\{0FCB99A3-188B-4F9E-B845-7C85CD0392B6}'
  • Entry path '\{867D4E1F-80BE-4A2D-8157-1A8705020099}'
  • Entry path '\{3323ED45-BDD5-46DD-B0D0-49B72DE4D5E4}'
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
  • Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Reader 10.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe'
  • Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Adobe\Acrobat 6.0\Reader\AcroRd32.exe'

ResourcesResource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
 
CPU
Total CPU:0.00122550%
0.028634%
Kernel CPU:0.00060653%
0.013761%
User CPU:0.00061897%
0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:14,891 ms/min
100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:17,349,628/sec
17,470,203/sec
Context switches:403/sec
284/sec
Memory
Private memory:45.89 MB
21.59 MB
Private (maximum):90.43 MB
Private (minimum):58.32 MB
Non-paged memory:45.89 MB
21.59 MB
Virtual memory:211.99 MB
140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):255.29 MB
169.69 MB
Working set:64.48 MB
18.61 MB
Working set (peak):102.7 MB
37.95 MB
Page faults:578,616/min
2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:409.97 KB/sec
1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:30/sec
343/min
I/O write transfer:115.85 KB/sec
274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:27/sec
227/min
I/O other transfer:2.52 KB/sec
448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:124/sec
1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:10
12
Handles:371
600
GUI GDI count:76
103
GUI GDI peak:157
142
GUI USER count:90
49
GUI USER peak:110
71

BehaviorsProcess properties

Integrety level:Medium
Platform:64-bit
Command lines:
  • "C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 11.0\reader\acrord32.exe" "C:\users\user\documents\school doc\mpc2 documents\maths\analyse\methodes_et_exercices_de_mathematiques_pcsi-ptsi.pdf"
  • "C:\Program Files\adobe\reader 11.0\reader\acrord32.exe" --channel=4396.1.560301840 --type=renderer "C:\users\user\documents\school doc\mpc2 documents\maths\analyse\methodes_et_exercices_de_mathematiques_pcsi-ptsi.pdf"
Owner:User
Parent processes:

ResourcesThreads

Averages
 
AcroRd32.exe (main module)
Total CPU:0.20071028%
0.272967%
Kernel CPU:0.03532717%
0.107585%
User CPU:0.16538312%
0.165382%
CPU cycles:7,255,581/sec
5,741,424/sec
Context switches:80/sec
79/sec
Memory:1.38 MB
1.16 MB
wow64cpu.dll
Total CPU:0.00445551%
Kernel CPU:0.00358378%
User CPU:0.00087173%
CPU cycles:105,421/sec
Memory:36 KB

Common loaded modules

These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.

Windows OS versionsDistribution by Windows OS

OS versiondistribution
Windows 7 Home Premium 42.68%
Windows 8 9.76%
Windows 8 Pro 8.54%
Windows 7 Professional 8.54%
Windows 7 Ultimate 7.32%
Microsoft Windows XP 6.10%
Windows 7 Starter 3.66%
Windows XP Professional 3.66%
Windows 8.1 Pro 2.44%
Windows 7 Home Basic 2.44%
Windows 8.1 N 1.22%
Windows Vista Ultimate 1.22%
Windows Vista Home Premium 1.22%
Windows Vista Home Basic 1.22%

Distribution by countryDistribution by country

United States installs about 48.68% of Adobe Reader.

OEM distributionDistribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturerdistribution
ASUS 28.57%
Hewlett-Packard 16.07%
Acer 16.07%
Dell 10.71%
Sony 7.14%
Toshiba 7.14%
GIGABYTE 7.14%
Intel 7.14%
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