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FBW.exe
FBW Application by AnchorFree Inc (Signed)
| Version: | 2, 0, 6, 0 |
| MD5: | da2e03bb704e87626c1cdf7f1e15a49b |
| SHA1: | f5cd83b8acee673fdf907a4e4acfd6c95ec4c9b1 |
| SHA256: | 8a8a18d0ef7321fa9d6a5419126c379fc6b64eda5169c8ed084e2a2bb9879ee0 |
About FBW.exe (from AnchorFree Inc)
“Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and our Internet gateway. This impenetrable tunnel prevents snoopers, hackers, ISP‘s, from viewing your web browsin”
Overview
fbw.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges typically within the context of its parent
openvpntray.exe (by AnchorFree Inc). The file is digitally signed by AnchorFree Inc which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Windows XP Professional (5.1.2600.196608).
Details
| File name: | fbw.exe |
| Product name: | FBW Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\hotspot shield\bin\fbw.exe |
| File version: | 2, 0, 6, 0 |
| Size: | 853.32 KB (873,800 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AnchorFree Inc |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, March 27, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, April 13, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.438775 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 1877
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.19238432% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04372371% | |
| User CPU: | 0.14866061% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 60 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 239/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 4.98 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 12.32 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 12.32 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 4.98 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 70.94 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 79.62 MB | |
| Working set: | 12.32 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 13.27 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,175/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 285.46 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 118/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 9.75 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 66/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 31.81 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 627/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 246 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 79 | |
| GUI USER count: | 34 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| fbw.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.06191490% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01238237% | |
| User CPU: | 0.04953254% | |
| Context switches: | 96/sec | |
| Memory: | 872 KB | |
| mshtml.dll (Microsoft HTML Viewer by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00974944% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00974944% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| Memory: | 2.95 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows XP Professional |
100.00% |
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