Additional versions

6.2.8250.0 (winmain_win8beta.120217-1520)	0.37%
6.2.8102.0 (winmain_win8m3.110823-1455)	0.74%
4.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	13.01%
4.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623)	0.74%
4.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)	1.86%
4.3.9431.0 (winmain_bluemp.130615-1214)	0.37%
4.0.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)	18.22%
4.0.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247)	62.83%
4.0.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)	1.12%
4.0.8400.0 (winmain_win8rc.120518-1423)	0.74%

Parent process

Related files

This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.

MsMpEng.exe is the back-end of Microsoft Security Essentials. It is important to remember that this process is actually used by both Windows Defender and MSE. When you install Microsoft Security Essentials, then Windows Defender is automatically turned off and Microsoft Security Essentials uses this process. This is the main process that runs the program and takes quite some system memory. If you end this process then Microsoft Security Essentials will be disabled and an alert will be shown aski

CPU
Total CPU:	0.01062297%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00734961%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00327336%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	279,672,871 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	292,820/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	15/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	75.66 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	93.49 MB
Private (minimum):	28.61 MB
Non-paged memory:	75.66 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	199.63 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	403.06 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	47.28 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	236.16 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	14,006,108/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	1.5 MB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	287/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	89.65 KB/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	2/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	295.1 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	2,874/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	19	12
Handles:	470	600

msvcrt.dll
Total CPU:	0.17052443%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.01556230%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.15496212%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	3,001,829/sec	5,741,424/sec
Context switches:	1/sec	79/sec
Memory:	708 KB	1.16 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.04090396%
Kernel CPU:	0.01701864%
User CPU:	0.02388532%
CPU cycles:	674,434/sec
Memory:	1.4 MB
MsMpEng.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00037043%
Kernel CPU:	0.00034235%
User CPU:	0.00002808%
CPU cycles:	4,368/sec
Memory:	24 KB