MSASCUI.exe
Windows Defender by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.5.0218.0 |
| MD5: | 154928429ed4cdb1e3bb96719a3b7c5b |
| SHA1: | 826a41709f28752895e0412ebc0e98a2ca53412d |
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: | 4.5.0218.0 |
| Size: | 1.27 MB (1,334,952 bytes) |
| Build date: | 3/21/2014 12:55 PM |
| 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: | 0.00019135% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00010469% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00008666% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 9,906 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.52 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 18.45 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 10.88 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.52 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 200.89 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 211.13 MB | |
| Working set: | 12.38 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 20.03 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 308 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 83 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 103 | |
| GUI USER count: | 97 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 104 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| MSASCui.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01016681% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00656133% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00360548% | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,587,827/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.26 MB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001083% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001083% | |
| CPU cycles: | 152/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.59 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% |
|
