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
|
35a25cd99987f4be161dacc28a0097f3 | |
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DLL
|
0efb69b44b687fb8d718e59b5e091732 | |
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EXE
|
a0251ed3abba7acc84416738c8282aca | |
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DLL
|
5d8843488433e6636ea17d36a3225ed2 | |
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EXE
|
760acd103ffb86ad65dc41cdeb08abcf | |
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EXE
|
1fa984bc74002685a4efa6075d6cb7f7 | |
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DLL
|
1503e80f4abe4837832b5010c0da1330 | |
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DLL
|
2d035208d06fe2853f40c1f83eb2d3ce | |
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DLL
|
3b42a46985871d00a69d3257c7ce00cc | |
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DLL
|
812329a526c92541d5153dc86489b7ad |