Communications_Helper.exe
Logitech by Logitech Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 1.5.2.1169 |
| MD5: | 53a47a21f341ff30b75f14bf03e01643 |
| SHA1: | f56060389a9031c3ea07a1102b2a3d8bb5e15f01 |
| SHA256: | e0a06bdedfb3d5d8dfd875c1bf9d8e3ed3fea6414e02bb348f88b34a0589f4b0 |
Overview
Communications_Helper.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
svchost.exe (Host Process for Windows Services by Microsoft Corporation). It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). The file is digitally signed by Logitech Inc which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | Communications_Helper.exe |
| Publisher: | Logitech Inc. |
| Product name: | Logitech |
| Description: | Communications Manager |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\logishrd\lcommgr\communications_helper.exe |
| File version: | 1.5.2.1169 |
| Size: | 550.77 KB (563,984 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Logitech Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, October 18, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, October 18, 2008 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 4.998395 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'LogitechCommunicationsManager' → "C:\Program Files\Common Files\LogiShrd\LComMgr\Communications_Helper.exe"
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.12702460% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.09498990% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03203469% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 788 ms/min | |
| User CPU time: | 14 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 11.27 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 7.17 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.88 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 11.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 100.1 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 126.01 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.05 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 11.76 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,522/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 23.01 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 11/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 17.07 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 7/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 759 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 271/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 18 | |
| Handles: | 194 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 20 | |
| GUI USER count: | 30 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\common files\logishrd\lcommgr\communications_helper.exe" -embedding
- "C:\Program Files\common files\logishrd\lcommgr\communications_helper.exe"
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| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| Communications_Helper.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.11348697% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.08754709% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02593988% | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,355,848/sec | |
| Context switches: | 27/sec | |
| Memory: | 564 KB | |
| brskypeplugin.dll (Logitech by Logitech) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00325039% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00325039% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,396,563/sec | |
| Context switches: | 88/sec | |
| Memory: | 240 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 Vista Home Premium |
60.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition |
20.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
20.00% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 66.67% of Logitech.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
66.67% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
33.33% |
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