Samsung Kies
What is Samsung Kies?
Samsung Kies is software application developed by Samsung Electronics CO., LTD.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 7 with nearly 59.55% of installations running this operating system. Samsung Kies's installer is typically 557.00 KB in size and installs around 206 files. The most common release is 2.5.3.13043_14 with 6.82% of all installations currently using this version.
Samsung Kies is most popular in the United States with 20.62% of installations residing in this country.
Samsung Kies adds 6 scheduled tasks to the Windows Task Scheduler launching the program at randomly scheduled times. When using a computer that is connected to the internet, Samsung Kies is known to create 4 firewall exceptions to allow inbound and outbound connectivity.
Software Behaviors
- Firewall:
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- Kies.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe'.
- KiesAgent.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesAgent.exe'.
- KiesTrayAgent.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesTrayAgent.exe'.
- KiesDriverInstaller.exe is added as a firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\KiesDriverInstaller.exe'.
- Scheduled tasks:
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- KiesAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{B1FD73C5-0911-4C81-B913-55E2BA9BEAE7}' (runs on registration).
- Kies.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{755A239D-9628-40CD-9BF7-065E92775EBE}' (runs on registration).
- KiesTrayAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{75217F7B-1CD6-4A14-A5EF-B2F911383F78}' (runs on registration).
- KiesSilentUpdateAgent.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{CA676C16-8190-488A-800F-E6CA49E542DF}' (runs on registration).
- KiesAirMessage.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{A38960E9-75F4-4FA5-BBA8-346F0A2E6FF6}' (runs on registration).
- KiesDriverInstaller.exe is scheduled as a task with the class '{FFD165C3-BCFE-4E13-B306-A6E6D1BF66CA}' (runs on registration).
Startup Entries
- Startup tasks:
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- KiesTrayAgent.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 3.
- Kies.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named 4.
- KiesAirMessage.exe is automatically launched at startup through a scheduled task named KiesAirMessage.
- Registry entries:
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- Kies.exe is loaded in the current user (HKCU) registry as an auto-starting executable named 'KiesPreload' and executes as C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe /preload.
- 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/us/kies
- Support:
- –
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\
- Uninstaller:
- "C:\Program Files\InstallShield Installation Information\{758C8301-2696-4855-AF45-534B1200980A}\setup.exe" -runfromtemp -l0x0409 -removeonly
- Size:
- 557.00 KB
- Language:
- English
Samsung Kies Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- Kies.exe
- Name:
- Samsung Kies
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Samsung\Kies\Kies.exe
- MD5:
- f5ed26ab8bdd951bfac8bbd0d68ba3e9
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
| File Type | Filename | MD5 |
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EXE
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154072e2b357765ca5e4350234b47804 | |
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DLL
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eb1ec702a26cc0bdff73d94cbcd10104 | |
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DLL
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e49203e16cdb0962a0544caff6858d02 | |
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DLL
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75e6c5b2fadc95f872c4caf11009cab8 | |
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DLL
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839c47b71191495f7f3895a927786982 | |
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DLL
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3df4ada69f643691386d945d6b7c743d | |
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DLL
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dcc97c086977f1db64cc8ce793a532d8 | |
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DLL
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65bab25e5bbd9bbe7f1e957e776858f6 | |
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DLL
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1f1af0c61d13df1e8336c8cd65580fba | |
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DLL
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4f3c3ce184a02179a270e42254d31355 |