Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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DiskDoctorSrv.exe
Norton Disk Doctor by Symantec Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1, 0, 0, 53 |
| MD5: | 7c85cc5570bf718d2b9ad9f53b1b5b55 |
| SHA1: | 3f0fa54d65eb5fb66b08a3d351d03dba92e95f3c |
| SHA256: | a8177f14cc2e40ecac07c2c9971f8b6e181b890bc845296aabddc2ea268ffd0a |
What is DiskDoctorSrv.exe?
Disk Doctor, which is part of Norton Utilities, includes undo and file undelete feature.
About DiskDoctorSrv.exe (from Symantec Corporation)
“Let Norton Utilities improve your PC's performance by repairing common PC issues, freeing up disk space; provides registry repair and improves strartup time.”
Overview
diskdoctorsrv.exe runs as a service under the name Norton Disk Doctor Service (DiskDoctorService) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Symantec Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | diskdoctorsrv.exe |
| Publisher: | Symantec Corporation |
| Product name: | Norton Disk Doctor |
| Description: | Norton Disk Doctor Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\norton utilities 15\tools\disk doctor\diskdoctorsrv.exe |
| File version: | 1, 0, 0, 53 |
| Size: | 1005.35 KB (1,029,480 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Symantec Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, October 30, 2007 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, November 24, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'DiskDoctorService' (Norton Disk Doctor Service)
- DiskDoctorService
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00296224% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00219745% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00076479% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 14,834,135 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 364,199/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.56 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.67 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 7.27 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.56 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 75.62 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 87.75 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.66 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.98 MB | |
| Page faults: | 14,981/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 650.69 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 12/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2.98 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 8.88 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 66/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 202 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\norton utilities 15\tools\disk doctor\diskdoctorsrv.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | DiskDoctorService |
| Display name: | Norton Disk Doctor Service |
| Description: | “Provides Symantec Norton Disk Doctor services. If this service is disabled the Norton Disk Doctor product will not function.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
45.45% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
18.18% |
|
| Windows 8 |
18.18% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
9.09% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
9.09% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 63.64% of Norton Disk Doctor.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
40.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
30.00% |
|
| Lenovo |
20.00% |
|
| Acer |
10.00% |
|
