Consumer Input Software

Consumer Input Software

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by Compete Inc.

What is Consumer Input Software?

Consumer Input Software is software application developed by Compete Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 71.76% of installations running this operating system. Consumer Input Software's installer is typically 3.00 MB in size and installs around 11 files. The most common release is 2.7.1.7927 with 54.66% of all installations currently using this version.

Consumer Input Software is most popular in the United States with 95.04% of installations residing in this country.

About Consumer Input Software?

This software serves as a tool for collecting and analyzing Compete.com statistics specifically for Microsoft Internet Explorer. Compete.com is a well-established web traffic analysis service that provides approximate global visitor counts for the top 1,000,000 websites worldwide. The data is sourced from internet service providers, opt-in panels, application providers, and users of the Compete toolbar. It is important to note that any inadvertently collected information may have been transmitted to Compete, but this information was not knowingly used in the service. It is worth mentioning that since then, significant improvements have been made to the software. Additionally, any inadvertently collected information that has been identified by our algorithms has been removed from our database. We are committed to upholding the highest standards of data privacy and security.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Consumer Input Software.

uninstall.exe (MD5: bbd691945f4dd893be4a5b0a53a29b42) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Antiy-AVL Virus/Win32.Xpaj
Dr.Web Adware.Siggen.26185
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0528

Startup Entries

Registry entries:
  • dca-ua.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'Consumer Input Update' and executes as C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\dca-ua.exe.

Software Details

URL:
https://consumerinput.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Consumer Input
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\uninstall.exe"
Size:
3.00 MB
Language:
English

Consumer Input Software Executable Details

Primary executable:
ConsumerInputDiagnosticTool.exe
Name:
Consumer Input Software
Path:
C:\Program Files\Consumer Input\ConsumerInputDiagnosticTool.exe
MD5:
3ee65212fb6ed6df00aef95825f00a5a
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Consumer Input Software
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
bbd691945f4dd893be4a5b0a53a29b42
DLL
f3fb38d8c9e865ca93d8ca233efc5e90
DLL
8ef3a8a8106927cebe38d88e44251d56
DLL
7c0b2726581a451989f6f20355fd5941
DLL
dc753d7e603914a3be66bc17246dd1f3
DLL
f8c943ff1b93339572ec2832c880628f
EXE
3ee65212fb6ed6df00aef95825f00a5a
EXE
05771ab14d9f9fe5fd4cf2ca9a6cf52f
EXE
b59c317aca618ad4f080c541b037ee90
EXE
a3c932f84e3fcab05b6cd973d0bacf7a