Should I block it?
60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
| 1.701.3.3014 |
8.79% |
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| 1, 7, 4, 0 |
34.56% |
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| 1, 7, 2, 0 |
28.37% |
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| 1, 7, 0, 0 |
9.54% |
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| 1, 6, 5, 0 |
15.06% |
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| 1, 6, 5, 0 |
0.08% |
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| 1, 5, 7, 0 |
3.60% |
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Relationships
armsvc.exe
Adobe Acrobat Update Service by Adobe Systems (Signed)
| Version: | 1, 5, 7, 0 |
| MD5: | 62b7936f9036dd6ed36e6a7efa805dc0 |
| SHA1: | 2c83d4558d3632095181f0875525f7a73c76c597 |
| SHA256: | c58ea1b46cb3595386c9217a7785f2a436916fb1e0bdc0e4be484292c55aa455 |
What is armsvc.exe?
Adobe Acrobat Update Service is a program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
About armsvc.exe (from Adobe Systems)
“Adobe Reader software is the global standard for electronic document sharing. It is the only PDF file viewer that can open and interact with all PDF documents. Use Adobe Reader to view, search, digita”
Details
| File name: | armsvc.exe |
| Publisher: | Adobe Systems Incorporated |
| Product name: | Adobe Acrobat Update Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\armsvc.exe |
| File version: | 1, 5, 7, 0 |
| Size: | 62.43 KB (63,928 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Adobe Systems |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Adobe Systems Incorporated |
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Adobe Acrobat and Adobe Reader X are a set of applications designed to view, create, manipulate, print and manage files in Portable Document Format (PDF). Acrobat and Reader are widely used as a method of presenting information with a fixed layout similar to a paper publication. Adobe also allows Acrobat plug-ins to be developed by third parties, which can add extra functions to the Acrobat program. It includes sandboxing protection fo...
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'AdobeARMservice' (Adobe Acrobat Update Service)
- AdobeARMservice
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00247774% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00046185% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00201588% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 67,051 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 634/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.11 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.46 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.37 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.11 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 59.64 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 61.96 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.83 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.14 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,551/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O other transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 302 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 16 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 19 | |
| GUI USER count: | 59 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 60 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\adobe\arm\1.0\armsvc.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | AdobeARMservice |
| Display name: | Adobe Acrobat Update Service |
| Description: | “Adobe Acrobat Updater keeps your Adobe software up to date.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wdmaud.drv |
| Total CPU: | 0.33462862% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.12692810% | |
| User CPU: | 0.20770052% | |
| CPU cycles: | 8,910,557/sec | |
| Context switches: | 109/sec | |
| Memory: | 236 KB | |
| DSOUND.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.28846771% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.07211677% | |
| User CPU: | 0.21635094% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,582,614/sec | |
| Context switches: | 66/sec | |
| Memory: | 544 KB | |
| rfcommlib.dll (Bluetooth Software by Atheros Commnucations) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01505688% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00885699% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00619989% | |
| CPU cycles: | 414,869/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 88 KB | |
| btvstack.exe (Bluetooth Software by Atheros Commnucations) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00300180% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00167250% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00132930% | |
| CPU cycles: | 125,819/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.81 MB | |
| armsvc.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00180251% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002768% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00177484% | |
| CPU cycles: | 72,244/sec | |
| Memory: | 68 KB | |
| WINMM.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00089160% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00089160% | |
| CPU cycles: | 854,321/sec | |
| Context switches: | 9/sec | |
| Memory: | 236 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
39.00% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate |
15.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
12.50% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
7.00% |
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| Windows 8 |
4.00% |
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| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
3.00% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
2.50% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
2.50% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.50% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.00% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro Preview |
0.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 48.24% of Adobe Acrobat Update Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
21.82% |
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| ASUS |
15.27% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
14.18% |
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| Toshiba |
12.36% |
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| Acer |
9.09% |
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| Lenovo |
8.73% |
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| Sony |
7.27% |
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| Samsung |
3.64% |
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| Intel |
3.64% |
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| GIGABYTE |
1.82% |
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| Medion |
0.73% |
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| Gateway |
0.73% |
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| Alienware |
0.36% |
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| Sahara |
0.36% |
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