ekrn.exe
ESET Smart Security by ESET (Signed)
| Version: | 6.0.314.0 |
| MD5: | 92d594450a59686da534e9bc5782ef58 |
| SHA1: | 5b9e4a714f369e16d310e421dbb66526286298dc |
| SHA256: | c803f1d2d7f454af446c3ff4fdc284a656619f64f26843864e76579352fd9396 |
What is ekrn.exe?
ESET NOD32 Antivirus, commonly known as NOD32, is an antivirus software package from ESET. ESET's use of assembly language in its products contributes to their low system requirements and disk space utilization. ESET calls its scanning engine ThreatSense, and makes extensive use of generic signatures and heuristics.
About ekrn.exe (from ESET)
“Protect your family with ESET’s complete Internet security suite, built on the award-winning ThreatSense antivirus and antispyware engine. Our proactive heuristic technology intercepts and eliminates ”
Details
| File name: | ekrn.exe |
| Publisher: | ESET |
| Product name: | ESET Smart Security |
| Description: | ESET Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\eset\eset nod32 antivirus\ekrn.exe |
| File version: | 6.0.314.0 |
| Size: | 1.28 MB (1,341,664 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/4/2013 9:08 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | ESET |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, June 12, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“ESET Smart Security is an all-in-one Internet Security solution with new Anti-theft feature that locates your missing laptop and gives you tools to help recover it. Personal Firewall and Anti-Phishing keep your data safe from identity theft and other scams. Delivering top protection right from the start, the solution lets you address security issues directly from the main screen. Quickly find the settings you need and fine-tune your sec...”
ESET NOD32 Antivirus, commonly known as NOD32, is an antivirus software package made by the Slovak company ESET.
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'ekrn' (ESET Service)
- ekrn
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 56869
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00045719% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00022648% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00023071% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,520,196,155 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,885,658/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 89.39 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 121.19 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 24.45 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 89.39 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 203.42 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 295.86 MB | |
| Working set: | 46.45 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 171.21 MB | |
| Page faults: | 3,866,471/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 3.91 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 801/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 373.96 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 7/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 18.67 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 182/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 25 | |
| Handles: | 401 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\eset\eset nod32 antivirus\ekrn.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | ekrn |
| Display name: | ESET Service |
| Description: | “ESET Service” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
40.50% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
23.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
11.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
7.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 N |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Consumer Preview |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
Ireland installs about 14.50% of ESET Smart Security.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
18.54% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
13.17% |
|
| Dell |
12.68% |
|
| Intel |
11.71% |
|
| Acer |
9.27% |
|
| Lenovo |
8.78% |
|
| Sony |
8.78% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
7.32% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.83% |
|
| Sahara |
0.98% |
|
| Samsung |
0.98% |
|
| American Megatrends |
0.98% |
|
