adawareservice.exe
Ad-Aware Antivirus Service by Lavasoft Limited (Signed)
| Version: | 10,5,0,4339 |
| MD5: | 3f59267f038747e89ba97cd11388748d |
| SHA1: | 78bd1b15b164c1b9b7f37e45b64ad9c21de306da |
| SHA256: | cf84a2bcb2c4c2858dc2d6ea216574a8d9912bd741e83e248c64e0401efe31ad |
What is adawareservice.exe?
Ad-Aware Antivirus Service is part of Ad-Aware, an anti-spyware and anti-virus program developed by Lavasoft that detects and removes malware, spyware and adware on a user's computer. According to Lavasoft, Ad-Aware detects spyware, computer viruses, dialers, Trojans, bots, rootkits, data miners, aggressive advertising, parasites, browser hijackers, and tracking components.
About adawareservice.exe (from Lavasoft Limited)
“Built upon our legendary anti-spyware and antivirus protection, Ad-Aware real-time web-filtering technology safeguards your PC against phishing attacks and online scams, allowing you to stay protected”
Details
| File name: | adawareservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Lavasoft Limited |
| Product name: | Ad-Aware Antivirus Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\ad-aware antivirus\adawareservice.exe |
| Original name: | Ad-Aware Antivirus Service.exe |
| File version: | 10,5,0,4339 |
| Size: | 1.18 MB (1,236,336 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Lavasoft Limited |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00008781% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00007523% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001258% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 93,810 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,150/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.73 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.57 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 3.07 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.73 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 46.76 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 52.69 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.46 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 5.62 MB | |
| Page faults: | 8,734/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 33 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 98 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\ad-aware antivirus\adawareservice.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | Ad-Aware Service |
| Description: | “Ad-Aware Service” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| AdAwareService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005183% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004609% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000575% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,027/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.21 MB | |
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003172% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000575% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002597% | |
| CPU cycles: | 783/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Professional |
24.24% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
21.21% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
15.15% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
12.12% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
9.09% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
9.09% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
6.06% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.03% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 66.67% of Ad-Aware Antivirus Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
46.43% |
|
| Dell |
21.43% |
|
| Acer |
14.29% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
10.71% |
|
| Samsung |
7.14% |
|