What is Badoo Desktop?

Badoo Desktop is software application developed by Badoo. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 65.52% of installations running this operating system. Badoo Desktop's installer is typically 1.00 MB in size and installs around 117 files. The most common release is 1.6.58.1220 with 85.87% of all installations currently using this version.

Badoo Desktop is most popular in the United States with 16.09% of installations residing in this country.

Badoo Desktop adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Badoo Desktop is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

Software Behaviors

Services:

YahooMessenger.exe runs as a service named 'McAfee Application Installer Cleanup (0285841475581559)' (0285841475581559mcinstcleanup).

Firewall:

YahooMessenger.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\cyber\Yahoo!\Messenger\YahooMessenger.exe'.

Scheduled tasks:

YahooMessenger.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{D556CEAB-DA41-4596-99DC-3BAE7F8CA0DF}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:

YahooMessenger.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 1.

Registry entries:

YahooMessenger.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Windows Bootloader' and executes as C:\users\user\appdata\Local\Temp\Microsoft Bootloader\bootloader.exe.
badoo.desktop.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Badoo Desktop' and executes as C:\ProgramData\Badoo\Badoo Desktop\1.6.55.1183\Badoo.Desktop.exe.

Registry entries (User):

YahooMessenger.exe is loaded once in the current user (HKCU) registry as a startup file name 'Shockwave Updater' which loads as "C:\Windows\System32\Adobe\SHOCKW~1\SWHELP~1.EXE" -Update -1103472 -"Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .

Software Details

URL:

https://badoo.com

Support:

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Installation path:

C:\ProgramData\badoo\badoo desktop\1.6.55.1183

Uninstaller:

MsiExec.exe /X{FAE5B434-5222-4C81-BEEE-74A380D1EA6C}

Size:

1.00 MB

Language:

English

Badoo Desktop Executable Details

Primary executable:

YahooMessenger.exe

Name:

Badoo Desktop

Path:

C:\ProgramData\badoo\badoo desktop\1.6.55.1183\YahooMessenger.exe

MD5:

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SHA-1:

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SHA-256:

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File Type

Filename

MD5

DLL

YPluginRegistry.dll

0506511eec2060c04c046a11594e16cd

DLL

yui.dll

031f3341a7fd57fcbb9b0f3c1e739f3d

DLL

ywcupl.dll

1042cf38de8915fcf812024a13d3d173

DLL

ywcvwr.dll

f8907dda89439e2ab31157ebb11c7373

EXE

badoo.desktop.exe

bf94de8b5a931b1647fb416818e12856

DLL

libprotobuf.dll

4c3ead45b5a38a51f35ca9b7480f10df

EXE

mumble11x.exe

b1341af9c7c1816082c20ee9d0f2fe4b