msseces.exe
Microsoft Security Essentials by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.2.0223.0 |
| MD5: | 4d2f7561d8a840450aabfad3740b0e6b |
| SHA1: | b848520bd1adecfad3c5e232aef9a53155473cf7 |
| SHA256: | 10d26337de49df55fce83e0a7973a53d895b68917940ba8cfbc39d01ec575ca5 |
What is msseces.exe?
Msseces.exe is the front-end GUI of MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials). If you have installed the latest antivirus from Microsoft, then this process keeps the program’s graphical interface running. Even if you end this process, MSE(Microsoft Security Essentials) will keep running in Windows background and will not actually shutdown. The downside would be that it will not be able to alert you of any new threat. If you are running MSE, then you should not worry about this process since it is not s
About msseces.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“Microsoft Security Essentials provides real-time protection for your home or small business PC that guards against viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. Microsoft Security Essentials is a fr”
Details
| File name: | msseces.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft Security Essentials |
| Description: | Microsoft Security Essentials User Interface |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft security essentials\msseces.exe |
| File version: | 4.2.0223.0 |
| Size: | 924.95 KB (947,152 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Monday, July 13, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, October 13, 2010 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.242037 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Microsoft Security Essentials is an antivirus software product that provides protection against different types of malware such as computer viruses, spyware, rootkits and Trojan horses. It runs on Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7, but not on Windows 8, which has a built-in AV component. Built upon the same virus definitions and scanning engine as other Microsoft antivirus products, MSE provides real-time protection, constantly mo...
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Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'MSC' → "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Client\msseces.exe" -hide -runkey
- 'MSSE' → "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Security Essentials\msseces.exe" -hide
Scheduled tasks
- The task '{71D4AACB-C18B-4045-A10C-354B97DBD55B}' runs on registration in the path '\{71D4AACB-C18B-4045-A10C-354B97DBD55B}'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00555259% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00272812% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00282447% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 419,116 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 124,526/sec | |
| Context switches: | 8/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.47 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 10.9 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.14 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.47 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 77.71 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 81.3 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.86 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 13.11 MB | |
| Page faults: | 23,224/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.52 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 126 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 364 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 11/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 269 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 158 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 182 | |
| GUI USER count: | 80 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 93 | |
Process properties
| Tray notification: | Yes |
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\microsoft security client\msseces.exe" -hide -runkey
- "C:\Program Files\microsoft security client\msseces.exe"
- /hide
|
| Owner: | User |
| Parent process: | Explorer.EXE (Windows Explorer by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01651416% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00631366% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01020050% | |
| CPU cycles: | 277,802/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.23 MB | |
| msseces.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01412310% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00686711% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00725599% | |
| CPU cycles: | 68,038/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 924 KB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00216146% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00142905% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00073241% | |
| Memory: | 1.67 MB | |
| USERENV.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00006384% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006384% | |
| Memory: | 720 KB | |
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 |
60.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
15.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
7.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
1.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 54.55% of Microsoft Security Essentials.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
30.94% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
15.85% |
|
| Acer |
10.19% |
|
| ASUS |
9.81% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.04% |
|
| Sony |
6.04% |
|
| Lenovo |
5.28% |
|
| Intel |
4.53% |
|
| Compaq |
3.02% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
2.26% |
|
| Gateway |
1.51% |
|
| MSI |
1.51% |
|
| NEC |
1.51% |
|
| Samsung |
0.75% |
|
| Sahara |
0.75% |
|
