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yspservice.exe
Yahoo! Search Protection by Yahoo! Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 2010, 4, 1, 01 |
| MD5: | 2e206188b1117410a54ae9def4f9268d |
| SHA1: | 89404567ca2f5903aa5134e8df9ec3b83590440e |
| SHA256: | b2c8d4441200ca67a9c319337770bd86861306d7d009d2dcdf33a6b778b55124 |
Overview
yspservice.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Yahoo! Search Protection published by Yahoo! Inc. and Yahoo! Install Manager published by Yahoo! Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Yahoo! Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.131072).
Details
| File name: | yspservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Product name: | Yahoo! Search Protection |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\yahoo!\search protection\yspservice.exe |
| File version: | 2010, 4, 1, 01 |
| Product version: | 2, 0, 1, 13 |
| Size: | 237.3 KB (243,000 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Yahoo! Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, August 12, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, September 2, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
When a third party attempts to change Yahoo! as your default search engine, Yahoo! Search Protection will ask you to confirm the change and will prevent the change until you confirm it. When enabled, Yahoo! Search Protection logs changes you make to your default search settings as well as third party attempts to change your default search engine settings. If you choose to modify your default search engine from Yahoo! to another engine, ...
Yahoo Install Manager manages Yahoo program downloads and installations. The install manager keeps track of such programs and assists in the installations to put things in their proper places.
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'YSearchProtection' → C:\Program Files\Yahoo!\Search Protection\YspService.exe
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00008337% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00007531% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000807% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 141 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.05 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 56 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 34.57 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 36.57 MB | |
| Working set: | 68 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.05 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,242/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 36 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 149 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 97 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 5 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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