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ASFIpMon.exe
Broadcom ASF IP and SMBIOS Mailbox Monitor by Broadcom Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 7.2.2 |
| MD5: | 7591238ebf7dd1fd13b353c382227dc3 |
| SHA1: | 74e54ed15159f3ba081dbbc321fe4fbd5b363d6b |
| SHA256: | 905ae64d7bc1edd78be4c99d859b2acb80a293d58c741d3f2cd1bd42e3c90316 |
Overview
asfipmon.exe runs as a service under the name Broadcom ASF IP and SMBIOS Mailbox Monitor (ASFIPmon) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Broadcom Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Microsoft Windows XP (5.1.2600.196608).
Details
| File name: | asfipmon.exe |
| Publisher: | Broadcom Corporation |
| Product name: | Broadcom ASF IP and SMBIOS Mailbox Monitor |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\broadcom\asfipmon\asfipmon.exe |
| File version: | 7.2.2 |
| Product version: | 10.0 |
| Size: | 77.57 KB (79,432 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Broadcom Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, August 24, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, October 23, 2009 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'ASFIPmon' (Broadcom ASF IP and SMBIOS Mailbox Monitor)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013706% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002480% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00011226% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,094 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.99 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.29 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.93 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.99 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 22.69 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 24.04 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.93 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.38 MB | |
| Page faults: | 6,532/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 7 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: | 339 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 10/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 76 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\broadcom\asfipmon\asfipmon.exe" -service |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | ASFIPmon |
| Display name: | Broadcom ASF IP and SMBIOS Mailbox Monitor |
| Description: | “Monitors and propagates changes in the IP settings of ASF-enabled Broadcom network interfaces.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
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Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
100.00% |
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