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
c835d90c105b2085ff7f1a1d17185ac5
EXE
b363c398b89400414a9daaab2626f287
EXE
5cf949316c40314d66b45f0bf00aa6f6
DLL
6ae50ebbf5b12e4b62c96487eb112f29
EXE
d5eb6e88d4b13dc1e0310482b2fc2f4f
DLL
b0b52d5f9c4ba17c669689f626b5f092
DLL
940550296a1f037942f23589bfa53f0a
DLL
e1f62a7f0b9c49ba32093dbd83c32de1
DLL
ccdb8ba837486cd76f94d0a2870f6eed
EXE
4384db63daa5c270b8f46530ecb79303