afwServ.exe
avast! Antivirus by AVAST Software a.s. (Signed)
| Version: | 9.0.2013.292 |
| MD5: | 3b5da02dea6910a709f19180746ff0ce |
| SHA1: | 366fe2a0f101d17ed6948927410c75594d4720d7 |
Overview
afwserv.exe runs as a service under the name avast! Firewall with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access) as a shared service. It is installed with a couple of know programs including avast! Internet Security published by AVAST Software, avast! Premier from AVAST Software and avast! Premier by AVAST Software. The file is digitally signed by AVAST Software a.s. which was issued by the DigiCert Inc certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | afwserv.exe |
| Publisher: | AVAST Software |
| Product name: | avast! Antivirus |
| Description: | avast! firewall service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\avast software\avast\afwserv.exe |
| File version: | 9.0.2013.292 |
| Size: | 111.04 KB (113,704 bytes) |
| Build date: | 1/21/2014 12:15 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AVAST Software a.s. |
| Authority (CA): | DigiCert Inc |
| Effective date: | Thursday, July 11, 2013 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, September 14, 2016 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“avast! Internet Security provides complete antivirus, anti-spyware, antispam, and firewall protection, complemented by avast! SafeZone™ and new hybrid cloud technologies, for best protection against viruses, spyware, and other types of malware. SafeZone creates a private and isolated virtual window on your desktop for safely making your sensitive financial transactions when shopping or banking online.”
“Puts all the latest security technology at your fingertips. Comes with advanced privacy tools, full remote access, and a software update manager, to keep your most important programs updated. avast! Premier goes beyond our already comprehensive Internet Security to offer our new Data Shredder, for very permanently deleting sensitive data from the hard drive; remote capability improvements that – at the request of our users – allow autom...”
Avast! Free Antivirus is a full-featured antivirus and anti-spyware scanning and removal product that offers a web-reputation browser extension as well as virtualization technology. Accurate threat updates via Avast updates are delivered automatically using PUSH update technology.
“Avast Pro Antivirus is for individuals or companies that want customizable computer security that will integrate easily with an existing firewall. It has all the features of Avast Free Antivirus, plus a command-line scanner, full-scale virtualization, and the new Avast SafeZone (a clean, isolated desktop, so that other applications--even keyloggers--cannot see what's happening), designed specifically for secure online shopping or bankin...”
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' as a shared service by the Service Host (svchost.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00015856% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00014806% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001051% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,607 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,489,074/sec | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 13.81 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 16.91 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 14.4 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 13.81 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 120.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 133.2 MB | |
| Working set: | 16.13 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 29.25 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,498,508/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 134.47 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 257/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 11.58 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 544.78 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 3,124/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 27 | |
| Handles: | 270 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\avast software\avast\afwserv.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | avast! Firewall |
| Description: | “Implements main functionality for avast! Firewall” |
| Type: | Win32ShareProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| afwServ.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00026851% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011960% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00014891% | |
| CPU cycles: | 113,005/sec | |
| Memory: | 116 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007622% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001524% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006097% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,790/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
43.75% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
18.75% |
|
| Windows 8 |
18.75% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
12.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
6.25% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 56.25% of avast! Antivirus.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
43.48% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
21.74% |
|
| Dell |
17.39% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.70% |
|
| Acer |
4.35% |
|
| Samsung |
4.35% |
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