Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
fsssvc.exe
Windows Live Family Safety Service by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 16.4.3508.0205 |
| MD5: | b6ab40819ecec4ba07266ec0ebbc85a7 |
| SHA1: | 3da3b0cc4e376555b44f738b7035903d1d4d0ea3 |
| SHA256: | 71d385043720b622305fd64bd1187c6ffd7191c30794f95629cf6bfdc0a25ba2 |
What is fsssvc.exe?
Microsoft Family Safety (formerly Windows Live Family Safety), developed by Microsoft, is free parental monitoring and content-control software. Family Safety has a Windows Filtering Platform driver to filter web browsing.
About fsssvc.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“Microsoft announced that Windows Live Family Safety will be renamed to Microsoft Family Safety and will be built-in as part of its Windows 8 operating system. With Windows 8, you can monitor what your”
Details
| File name: | fsssvc.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Family Safety Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\family safety\fsssvc.exe |
| File version: | 16.4.3508.0205 |
| Size: | 1.44 MB (1,512,448 bytes) |
| Build date: | 2/6/2013 7:39 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Windows Live Essentials is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as SkyDrive and Outlook.com, so that they operate as a seamless whole.
Windows Live "is a way to extend the Windows user experience". Windows Vista provides a link in its user interface to download Windows Live Messenger, and Windows 7 saw the removal of applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker and replaced with the Windows Essentials suite, a software package that allows the downloading and installation of similar offerings from Windows Live. Windows Live offers int...
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'fsssvc' (Windows Live Family Safety)
- 'fsssvc'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002674% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001259% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001415% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,410,040,494 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 26.95 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 55.05 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 21.1 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 26.95 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 205.11 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 273.48 MB | |
| Working set: | 32.39 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 92.5 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 44 | |
| Handles: | 742 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\windows live\family safety\fsssvc.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | fsssvc |
| Display name: | Windows Live Family Safety |
| Description: | “This service enables Family Safety on the computer. If this service is not running, Family Safety will not work.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
46.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
19.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
8.50% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
2.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium N |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 43.22% of Windows Live Family Safety Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
18.91% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
17.09% |
|
| Dell |
16.00% |
|
| Sony |
11.64% |
|
| Toshiba |
9.45% |
|
| Acer |
9.09% |
|
| Samsung |
2.91% |
|
| Intel |
2.91% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.55% |
|
| Lenovo |
2.18% |
|
| American Megatrends |
1.45% |
|
| Medion |
1.45% |
|
| Sahara |
0.73% |
|
| Compaq |
0.73% |
|
| MSI |
0.73% |
|
| NEC |
0.73% |
|
| Gateway |
0.73% |
|
| Alienware |
0.36% |
|
| Packard Bell |
0.36% |
|
