Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
softinfo.exe
Software Informer by Informer Technologies
| Version: | 1, 0, 539, 0 |
| MD5: | 90072c7635ccb909b1a997c1359fff77 |
| SHA1: | 1fc15e13d5e8c09ec8f6cf756610e6c3cb7deb67 |
| SHA256: | 0da06195ca46f38810237812dda0f256553c3dbe9404f27c2ded44061ed256c6 |
What is softinfo.exe?
Software Informer is used to locate new versions of applications that are already installed on the computer system and downloaded from softwareinformer.com. Applications that currently have upgrades available are shown to the user, who can proceed with the upgrade with a simple click.
About softinfo.exe (from Informer Technologies)
“The Software Informer client application. First, you get notifications about important updates of your software and can directly manage your installed programs. Second, you get a nice overview of your”
Details
| File name: | softinfo.exe |
| Publisher: | Informer Technologies, Inc. |
| Product name: | Software Informer |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\software informer\softinfo.exe |
| File version: | 1, 0, 539, 0 |
| Product version: | 1.0 BETA |
| Size: | 1.92 MB (2,011,205 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Informer Technologies, Inc. |
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“Software Informer is a utility that has been designed specifically for those users who care to keep their applications functional and ready for any task that might arise. Its primary aim is to give you up-to-date information about the software you actually use. For that purpose, this program will make a list of applications installed on your computer, and later on will check their versions for obsoleteness by occasionally connecting to ...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Software Informer' → "C:\Program Files\Software Informer\softinfo.exe" -autorun
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.03274075% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02503705% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00770371% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 521 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 12/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.35 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.89 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 868 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.35 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 63.47 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 83.82 MB | |
| Working set: | 464 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.71 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 1 | |
| Handles: | 139 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 364 | |
| GUI USER count: | 111 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
30.00% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
20.00% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
20.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
20.00% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 44.44% of Software Informer.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
80.00% |
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| Acer |
20.00% |
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