mfefire.exe
SYSCORE by McAfee (Signed)
| Version: | SYSCORE.15.1.0.668 |
| MD5: | 1d57a3bcbfe09980993f2899e95ecf1a |
| SHA1: | 6798a541bf49a0facd7bcc1d14ffe661ebcebd6f |
What is mfefire.exe?
McAfee Core Firewall Service is part of McAfee's core security products. This is a common modules that is shared between a number of McAfee progams.
Overview
mfefire.exe runs as a service under the name McAfee Firewall Core Service (mfefire) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by McAfee which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | mfefire.exe |
| Publisher: | McAfee, Inc. |
| Product name: | SYSCORE |
| Description: | McAfee Core Firewall Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\mcafee\systemcore\mfefire.exe |
| File version: | SYSCORE.15.1.0.668 |
| Size: | 214.6 KB (219,752 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/21/2014 1:55 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | McAfee |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'mfefire' (McAfee Firewall Core Service)
- mfefire
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00415582% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00223726% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00191857% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 866,135 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 556,750/sec | |
| Context switches: | 16/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.8 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.47 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.34 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.8 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 41.82 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 44.42 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.8 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 6.79 MB | |
| Page faults: | 537,162/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 7 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 19 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 992 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 13/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 7 | |
| Handles: | 131 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\mcafee\systemcore\\mfefire.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | mfefire |
| Display name: | McAfee Firewall Core Service |
| Description: | “Provides firewall services to McAfee products” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| mfefire.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02523205% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01341815% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01181391% | |
| CPU cycles: | 508,081/sec | |
| Context switches: | 4/sec | |
| Memory: | 224 KB | |
| sechost.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00036386% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00034798% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001588% | |
| CPU cycles: | 11,154/sec | |
| Memory: | 288 KB | |
| mfehida.dll (SYSCORE by McAfee) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004709% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004709% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 23/sec | |
| Memory: | 92 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000506% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000506% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 49/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.75 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
39.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
19.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
8.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
5.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
4.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
3.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 60.50% of SYSCORE.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
27.83% |
|
| ASUS |
18.26% |
|
| Acer |
12.61% |
|
| Sony |
11.30% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
10.87% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.70% |
|
| Lenovo |
6.09% |
|
| Intel |
1.74% |
|
| Gateway |
1.74% |
|
| Alienware |
0.87% |
|
