notepad.exe
Notepad by Microsoft
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Warning 13 antivirus scanners has detected malware in various versions of notepad.exe.
Overview
notepad.exe has 45 known versions, the most recent one is 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). notepad.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. The average file size is about 150.38 KB. The programs Dell Support Center (Support Software), Dell Support Center and Activation Assistant for the 2007 Microsoft Office suites have been observed as installing specific variations of notepad.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0085% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 2.91 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 7.33 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 368 Bytes per minute for reads and 318 Bytes per minute for writes.
What is notepad.exe?
Notepad is a simple text editor for Microsoft Windows. It has been included in all versions of Microsoft Windows since Windows 1.0 in 1985. Notepad is a common text-only (plain text) editor. The resulting files—typically saved with the .txt extension—have no format tags or styles.
About notepad.exe (from Microsoft)
“Notepad is a basic text editor you can use for simple documents or for creating Web pages.”
 Details
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| File name: | notepad.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Notepad |
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\notepad.exe |
| Original name: | NOTEPAD.EXE.MUI |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Notepad.)
Dell Support Center is a control panel for system tools and diagnostics. It contains extensive help sections for online tools, warranty information, Dell technical support links and Dell customer supp...
Dell Support Center is a control panel for system tools and diagnostics. It contains extensive help sections for online tools, warranty information, Dell technical support links and Dell customer supp...
“Our award-winning text and HTML editor. Work on multiple files in its tabbed interface, carry out system-wide searches and multi-line replacements, and check your spelling. NoteTab is also programmabl...”
Yahoo Community Smartbar Engine 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 support...
The Microsoft Office Activation Assistant (OAA) is a tool that allows customers who have the 2007 Microsoft Office system preinstalled on a new PC to buy a product key or get a key to activate a 60-da...
“How can a business proposal be taken seriously if it does not contain a graphical presentation of your project activities? If you need a nice Gantt chart fast to demonstrate that you have done due dil...”
“Quivic allows you to easily download HD quality video from YouTube to your computer, and convert them for playback on your PC, iPod, iPhone, iPad or Sony PSP. Simply copy the address of the web page s...”
WinRAR is a file archiver and data compression utility that supports RAR, and ZIP and can unpack ARJ, LZH, TAR, GZ, ACE, UUE, BZ2, JAR, ISO, EXE and 7z compressed archives. Version 5 uses the RAR5 arc...
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of notepad.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Shell open commands
- batfile
- vbefile
- VBSFile
- scrfile
- regfile
- jsefile
- JSFile
- htafile
- CERFile
- txtfile
- scriptletfile
- inifile
Malware detections
Based on 40+ industry antivirus scanners, 13 of them detected the following malware.
All file variations of notepad.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
59.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
23.25% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
11.00% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.25% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.00% |
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| Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.75% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
0.75% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 49.87% of Notepad.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.48% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
18.29% |
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| ASUS |
13.71% |
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| Toshiba |
12.57% |
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| Acer |
11.24% |
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| Sony |
5.71% |
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| GIGABYTE |
2.86% |
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| Lenovo |
2.29% |
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| Alienware |
1.14% |
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| Samsung |
1.14% |
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| Sahara |
0.57% |
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