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
719b38e67f9ae8a1ceb7b2c3d6dfba4c
EXE
ffb19b5e78e6c268b51c35a3fe5a0ca1
EXE
3d98ff064559f46e82fdfc0884b7dafa
EXE
74c3782ed3b8eba9caf01be049749e2b
EXE
bcf5f7a148bf1af6d583178f133cc168
EXE
33b77f87603d62ac3e6cfdc426c67da3
EXE
57d88625328c8f69c94ab77b6a8d2153
EXE
18e5df488332e09909b1194d293f870d
EXE
cb7d793c2b4ffb8afa8769f48682cc95
EXE
1965fd4baf50f24876f22244a6d3e477