What is Kies?

Kies is software application developed by Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 69.86% of installations running this operating system. Kies's installer is typically 212.00 MB in size and installs around 100 files. The most common release is 1.4 with 57.53% of all installations currently using this version.

Kies is most popular in India with 26.32% of installations residing in this country.

Kies adds 1 scheduled task to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times.

Software Behaviors

Scheduled tasks:
  • KiesAirMessage.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{A38960E9-75F4-4FA5-BBA8-346F0A2E6FF6}' (runs on registration).

Startup Entries

Startup tasks:
  • KiesAirMessage.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named KiesAirMessage.
Registry entries:
  • KiesTrayAgent.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesTrayAgent' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe.
  • KiesAirMessage.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesAirMessage' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesAirMessage.exe -startup.

Software Details

URL:
https://www.samsung.com
Support:
Installation path:
C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\
Uninstaller:
"C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{D6CD26FD-CD7F-4C86-96A3-EEBFABE5FE47}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly
Size:
212.00 MB
Language:
English

Kies Executable Details

Primary executable:
KiesTrayAgent.exe
Name:
Kies
Path:
C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe
MD5:
94afa557b3d4b5ab847f45341ac820dd
SHA-1:
SHA-256:
Files installed by Kies
File Type Filename MD5
EXE
0b278f6bf5ccb3dbf2a1c772cd8de686
EXE
a06a260e3002c6b3b004a2c2f2ada9a8
DLL
971767b82544703f8ec6cd67c3326ad1
EXE
0c74bd4711507d74fe82cbf60a1713e4
EXE
9d6e4aaa80a590327a3f57634733607e
EXE
cb1e2b4dad3bf9915ef16b129f0a89cb
DLL
6758cea3941f3c1440178ca1dd291b01
DLL
1c1e4163bfc24f13bcb5917fdccc8f0a
EXE
5f5f5dd958bc0a466f99d47a756f003f
DLL
83c04e1b1de3bc83a029546450e957b2