Driver Genius Professional Edition

Driver Genius Professional Edition

Known Generic

by Driver-Soft Inc.

What is Driver Genius Professional Edition?

Driver Genius Professional Edition is software application developed by Driver-Soft Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 72.66% of installations running this operating system. Driver Genius Professional Edition's installer is typically 18.00 MB in size and installs around 50 files. The most common release is 11.0 with 56.61% of all installations currently using this version.

Driver Genius Professional Edition is most popular in the United States with 32.16% of installations residing in this country.

Driver Genius Professional Edition adds 3 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Driver Genius Professional Edition is known to create 1 firewall exception to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.

About Driver Genius Professional Edition?

This application is developed to compare the computer's installed drivers with a comprehensive database of available drivers for various software and device hardware applications. If updated drivers are found, the software can automatically download and install them from the respective manufacturers' websites.

Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Driver Genius Professional Edition.

unins001.exe (MD5: 93f95108a259907fefd14bba8c54c15b) has been flagged by 5 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Antiy-AVL Worm/Win32.WhiteIce
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
AVG DriverCleaner.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0831
Kingsoft AntiVirus VIRUS_UNKNOWN
LiveUpdate.exe (MD5: b363c398b89400414a9daaab2626f287) has been flagged by 8 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
CAT-QuickHeal (Suspicious) - DNAScan
Clam AntiVirus PUA.Packed.ASPack212
Panda Antivirus Suspicious file
Antiy-AVL Worm/Win32.WhiteIce
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
AVG DriverCleaner.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0831
Kingsoft AntiVirus VIRUS_UNKNOWN
drvgenpro.exe (MD5: b098b8cc1e6dad39ec26c42336a31595) has been flagged by 2 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG DriverCleaner.A
Kingsoft AntiVirus VIRUS_UNKNOWN
StarterW3i.exe (MD5: c834edb9141816e61e98969f45e2d179) has been flagged by 3 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
AVG DriverCleaner.A
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F47V0831
Kingsoft AntiVirus VIRUS_UNKNOWN
LiveDBUpdater.exe (MD5: 32a6c75530521520676a6cc5f67c641f) has been flagged by 25 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Lavasoft Ad-Aware Trojan.Generic.7584927
Bitdefender Trojan.Generic.7584927
Bkav FE W32.Clodd1f.Trojan.4c95
Clam AntiVirus Win.Trojan.7584927
Commtouch SDK W32/Trojan.WSFB-0465
Comodo Security UnclassifiedMalware
Emsisoft Anti-Malware Trojan.Generic.7584927 (B)
Fortinet FortiGate W32/SPNR.0BE312!tr
F-Secure Trojan.Generic.7584927
G Data Trojan.Generic.7584927
IKARUS anti.virus not-a-virus.Crack.DriverGen
Kingsoft AntiVirus Win32.Troj.DeepScan.f.(kcloud)
McAfee Artemis!32A6C7553052
McAfee-GW-Edition Artemis!32A6C7553052
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.Generic.7584927
Norman Suspicious_Gen4.AICAR
Panda Antivirus Generic Trojan
Sophos Mal/Generic-L
Symantec WS.Reputation.1
Trend Micro TROJ_SPNR.0BE312
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_SPNR.0BE312
VIPRE Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
CAT-QuickHeal (Suspicious) - DNAScan
Antiy-AVL Worm/Win32.WhiteIce
AVG DriverCleaner.A

Software Behaviors

Firewall:
  • DriverGenius.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Driver-Soft\DriverGenius\DriverGenius.exe'.
Scheduled tasks:
  • DriverGenius.exe is scheduled as a task named 'Driver Genius Skip UAC'.
  • unins001.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{598B6615-4F29-4FB1-8521-D3DEAA680C70}' (runs on registration).
  • StarterW3i.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{9F9F47EE-62A6-4071-B666-A4A00B18012E}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • DriverGenius.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named Driver Genius Scheduler.

Software Details

URL:
https://www.driver-soft.com
Support:
https://www.driver-soft.com/support.html
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Driver-Soft\DriverGenius\
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\Driver-Soft\DriverGenius\unins000.exe"
Size:
18.00 MB
Language:
English

Driver Genius Professional Edition Executable Details

Primary executable:
DriverGenius.exe
Name:
Driver Genius Professional Edition
Path:
C:\Program Files\Driver-Soft\DriverGenius\DriverGenius.exe
MD5:
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Driver Genius Professional Edition
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
64d1d0a4e3f76225663a97f6ba970eb8
EXE
0d35e820060c8ed2d53794092ed3b5cc
EXE
c8fa9f1ef5b84e38d39d309d9d937c7e
DLL
720c9275cfa8e46a5d33b94fca104af6
DLL
44629a619746dd663930015e236ceadd
EXE
93f95108a259907fefd14bba8c54c15b
EXE
1c0c02bf6bc237e70c78d57753499e8e
DLL
51233d4d7da19e8ad4e9413aceb41e95
DLL
67555f7bbca95b7a9c900ef970a040da
OCX
1139708ff9d867e30c23642eb750fa0e