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ACU.exe
ACU by Atheros Communications Inc. (Signed)
Version: | 8.0.0.196 |
MD5: | 9ba94966e1d92ee12629f6ea73a1e4ca |
SHA1: | 1b28f80c2712f6815ff0052db601600e4979bdee |
What is ACU.exe?
The Atheros Client Utility (ACU) is a user-mode utility designed to edit and add profiles, as well as display display diagnostics pertaining to the Atheros network adapter.
Overview
ACU.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). The file is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
File name: | ACU.exe |
Publisher: | Atheros Communications, Inc. |
Product name: | ACU |
Description: | Atheros Client Utility |
Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\atheros\acu.exe |
File version: | 8.0.0.196 |
Size: | 460.09 KB (471,129 bytes) |
Build date: | 3/28/2011 8:12 AM |
Certificate |
Issued to: | Atheros Communications Inc. |
Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
Expiration date: | Friday, January 4, 2013 |
Digital DNA |
PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
File packed: | No |
Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
.NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'ACU' → "C:\Program Files\Atheros\ACU.exe" -nogui
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
CPU |
Total CPU: | 0.00872228% | |
Kernel CPU: | 0.00112779% | |
User CPU: | 0.00759449% | |
Kernel CPU time: | 615,625 ms/min | |
Context switches: | 51/sec | |
Memory |
Private memory: | 6.55 MB | |
Private (maximum): | 8.55 MB | |
Private (minimum): | 8.54 MB | |
Non-paged memory: | 6.55 MB | |
Virtual memory: | 58.71 MB | |
Virtual memory (peak): | 60.77 MB | |
Working set: | 8.55 MB | |
Working set (peak): | 8.56 MB | |
Page faults: | 2,722/min | |
I/O |
I/O read transfer: | 0 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: | 738 Bytes/sec | |
I/O other operations: | 14/sec | |
Resource allocations |
Threads: | 3 | |
Handles: | 169 | |
GUI GDI count: | 39 | |
GUI USER count: | 84 | |
Process properties
Tray notification: | Yes |
Integrety level: | Undefined |
Platform: | 32-bit |
Command line: | "C:\Program Files\atheros\acu.exe" -nogui |
Owner: | User |
Parent process: | explorer.exe (by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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Distribution by country
Thailand installs about 16.67% of ACU.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
PC Manufacturer | distribution |
Toshiba |
40.00% |
|
Dell |
40.00% |
|
Acer |
20.00% |
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