avgnsa.exe
AVG Internet Security by AVG Technologies CZ (Signed)
| Version: | 9.0.0.855 |
| MD5: | 81700a7f297b3f12dbbbb893f1694ef6 |
| SHA1: | c77a104ed7743b5244ca6e86f7b0b2c77a888031 |
| SHA256: | 2e369d6675aee7e487a394f85d0357580bf32222309c439d248c7205f7aa73d2 |
What is avgnsa.exe?
AVG Online Shield Service - Anti-Virus and Anti-Spyware protection, plus the full AVG LinkScanner safe search and surf technology.
About avgnsa.exe (from AVG Technologies CZ)
“AVG Internet Security 2012 offers real-time protection when surfing, shopping, banking and social networking. You'll also enjoy worry-free downloading, an enhanced firewall, and one of the fastest sca”
Overview
avgnsa.exe executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent
avgwdsvc.exe (AVG Internet Security by AVG Technologies). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including AVG Free 9.0 published by AVG Technologies, AVG LinkScanner® 9.0 from AVG Technologies and AVG LinkScanner® 9.0 by AVG Technologies.
Details
| File name: | avgnsa.exe |
| Publisher: | AVG Technologies CZ, s.r.o. |
| Product name: | AVG Internet Security |
| Description: | AVG Online Shield Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\avg\avg2012\avgnsa.exe |
| Original name: | avgns.exe |
| File version: | 9.0.0.855 |
| Size: | 1.14 MB (1,196,384 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AVG Technologies CZ |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Monday, January 5, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
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“You want to surf, search and enjoy social networking but you want to avoid infected websites. With AVG LinkScanner® checking every web page before you even click on a link, you’ll know for sure that you, your identity, your personal information and your PC will never be compromised. Unique, preventative, real-time protection. As soon as you complete a search or type a web address into your browser AVG LinkScanner® interrogates the page...”
“AVG AntiVirus goes beyond simply detecting and removing viruses on your PC. It also delivers great preventative protection that blocks infected links and files as you surf, checking everything before you click through. ”
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed program
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\AVG\AVG2012\avgnsa.exe'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01824760% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00857924% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00966836% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 455,297 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,191,192/sec | |
| Context switches: | 27/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 35.89 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 12.47 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.94 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 35.89 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 99.38 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 109.79 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.13 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 15.31 MB | |
| Page faults: | 139,812,923/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.99 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 17 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 297.45 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 386/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 13 | |
| Handles: | 292 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| MSVCR80.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.33514419% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04861347% | |
| User CPU: | 0.28653072% | |
| CPU cycles: | 8,293,305/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 804 KB | |
| avgnsa.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00267208% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00100969% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00166239% | |
| CPU cycles: | 86,464/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.17 MB | |
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 |
54.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.24% |
|
| Windows 8 |
7.87% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.09% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
4.72% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
4.72% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
3.15% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.15% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
0.79% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
0.79% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.79% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
0.79% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.79% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.79% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 54.33% of AVG Internet Security.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
23.16% |
|
| Acer |
17.89% |
|
| Dell |
14.74% |
|
| ASUS |
12.63% |
|
| Sony |
10.53% |
|
| Lenovo |
8.42% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.32% |
|
| Samsung |
3.16% |
|
| Intel |
2.11% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.05% |
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