MSASCUI.exe
Windows Defender by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| MD5: | 05fa8adc5e47ff262020857bf503fb2e |
| SHA1: | 34e8040504037a4cbbb43883188141eb5a33e2b8 |
| SHA256: | 03c4a4230a3286ece6aa16576f3b524fb6d201f96d6bc8ca17b5f9259ae69e14 |
What is MSASCUI.exe?
MSASCui.exe is the Windows Defender User Interface, the main UI for Windows Defender.
About MSASCUI.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted so”
Details
| File name: | MSASCui.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Defender |
| Description: | Windows Defender User Interface |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows defender\msascui.exe |
| File version: | 6.1.7600.16385 (win7_rtm.090713-1255) |
| Product version: | 6.1.7600.16385 |
| Size: | 938.5 KB (961,024 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, April 4, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.322427 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Windows Defender User Interface' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
- 'Windows Defender' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.07355762% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03962547% | |
| User CPU: | 0.03393215% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,870 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,032,886/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.44 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.57 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.53 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.44 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 89.26 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 95.25 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.57 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.11 MB | |
| Page faults: | 17,757/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 8 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 8/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 134 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 53 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 63 | |
| GUI USER count: | 113 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 118 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| MSASCui.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.44259882% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.22800545% | |
| User CPU: | 0.21459337% | |
| CPU cycles: | 10,186,125/sec | |
| Memory: | 956 KB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00134168% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00134168% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 6,198/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.09 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
46.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
16.56% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
10.83% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
9.55% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
6.37% |
|
| Windows XP Home Edition |
5.73% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition |
1.27% |
|
| Windows XP Professional |
1.27% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
1.27% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.64% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 57.66% of Windows Defender.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
37.50% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
13.54% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.50% |
|
| ASUS |
10.42% |
|
| Intel |
6.25% |
|
| Acer |
5.21% |
|
| American Megatrends |
4.17% |
|
| Gateway |
4.17% |
|
| Sony |
4.17% |
|
| Lenovo |
2.08% |
|
