Should I block it?

No, this file is 100% safe to run.

Additional versions

10.15.106.0	20.00%
10.11.139.0	20.00%
10.0.209.0	20.00%
9.0.136.0	20.00%
8.0.198.0	20.00%

Relationships

Parent process

services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft)

Related files

mpfsrv.exe

McAfee Personal Firewall by McAfee (Signed)

Remove mpfsrv.exe

Version:	10.11.139.0
MD5:	dfc0623e02c35f33971ebe3b7d23ac5e
SHA1:	58e225086fd1ced1710460386523d8f31082b634
SHA256:	5b3cb71d5a869359c72862ecbad42e86682466b875f64b73ecb082e88a505ab9

Overview

mpfsrv.exe runs as a service under the name MpfService (MpfService) 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:	mpfsrv.exe
Publisher:	McAfee, Inc.
Product name:	McAfee Personal Firewall
Description:	McAfee Personal Firewall Service
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\mcafee\mpf\mpfsrv.exe
Original name:	MpfService.exe
File version:	10.11.139.0
Size:	873.18 KB (894,136 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	McAfee
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Friday, September 12, 2008
Expiration date:	Sunday, October 9, 2011
Digital DNA
PE subsystem:	Windows GUI
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Behaviors

Services

Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)

MpfService
'MpfService' (McAfee Personal Firewall Service)

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00002319%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000584%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00001735%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	133,084 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	965,586/sec	17,470,203/sec
Memory
Private memory:	7.43 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	8.59 MB
Private (minimum):	2.35 MB
Non-paged memory:	7.43 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	102.85 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	110.35 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	5.13 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	13.53 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	114,267/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	93.68 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	24/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	819 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	2.77 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	123/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	18	12
Handles:	404	600

Process properties

Integrety level:	System
Platform:	32-bit
Command line:	"C:\Program Files\mcafee\mpf\mpfsrv.exe"
Owner:	SYSTEM
Windows Service
Service name:	MpfService
Display name:	MpfService
Description:	“Helps protect your computer from intrusion and let's you manage your computer's trusted programs.”
Type:	Win32OwnProcess
Parent process:	services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft)

Threads

Averages

mpfmisp.dll (McAfee Personal Firewall Plus by McAfee)
Total CPU:	0.02133229%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.01679996%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00453233%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	351,334/sec	5,741,424/sec
Memory:	1.11 MB	1.16 MB
MPFSrv.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00159794%
Kernel CPU:	0.00094843%
User CPU:	0.00064951%
CPU cycles:	26,846/sec
Memory:	968 KB
sechost.dll
Total CPU:	0.00066427%
Kernel CPU:	0.00033951%
User CPU:	0.00032475%
CPU cycles:	11,817/sec
Memory:	100 KB
ole32.dll
Total CPU:	0.00014351%
Kernel CPU:	0.00007423%
User CPU:	0.00006928%
CPU cycles:	2,985/sec
Memory:	1.36 MB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00004921%
Kernel CPU:	0.00003444%
User CPU:	0.00001476%
CPU cycles:	1,316/sec
Memory:	1.23 MB