adawareservice.exe
Ad-Aware Antivirus Service by Lavasoft Limited (Signed)
| Version: | 10,2,21,3698 |
| MD5: | af9658974154c3b6a333d86dc2e0aac8 |
| SHA1: | 1ca95122fc28d4ca271fc77ed4e1d4784dd33da6 |
| SHA256: | c3fcfc9ec01d7c96ba953cccc8b540048ecc2840e8fa2c1994eefd95e69d908a |
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: | 10,2,21,3698 |
| Size: | 1.18 MB (1,239,952 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: | 0.00271887% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00268847% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003040% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 55 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,263/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.78 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 4.96 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.79 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.78 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 57.54 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 74.22 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.85 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.13 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,438/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 21 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 21 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 37 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 128 | |
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
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00467467% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00467467% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 53,116/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00076562% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00076562% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 12,325/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| AdAwareService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00076561% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00076561% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,759/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.21 MB | |
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% |
|