Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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NACAgent.exe
Cisco NAC Agent by Cisco Systems (Signed)
| Version: | 4.9.0.33 |
| MD5: | 72dd381229bca8961e826ba73afe60bc |
| SHA1: | 696497fdef0c8e9a29373863bc6f587051d63529 |
| SHA256: | 93b70a721ca69c4ae49145642cb0a7ee419b72362bbd7dcd0924e91d2a8387eb |
Overview
nacagent.exe runs as a service under the name Cisco NAC Agent (NACAgent) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). This is typically installed with the program Cisco NAC Agent published by Cisco Systems, Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Cisco Systems which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | nacagent.exe |
| Publisher: | Cisco Systems, Inc. |
| Product name: | Cisco NAC Agent |
| Description: | Cisco NAC Agent Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\cisco\cisco nac agent\nacagent.exe |
| File version: | 4.9.0.33 |
| Size: | 1.18 MB (1,233,848 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Cisco Systems |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, February 7, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, February 7, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
Cisco NAC is a network admission control (NAC) system developed by Cisco Systems designed to produce a secure and clean network environment. The system usually installs an application known as the Clean Access Agent on computers that will be connected to the network. This application, in conjunction with both a Clean Access server and a Clean Access Manager, has become common in many universities and corporate environments today. It is ...
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'NACAgent' (Cisco NAC Agent)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00010641% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002922% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00007719% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,408,344 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.66 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.61 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.13 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.66 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 48.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 48.21 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.61 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.14 MB | |
| Page faults: | 76,060/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.86 MB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 175/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 1.84 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 5/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 71.89 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 5,219/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 119 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\cisco\cisco nac agent\nacagent.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | NACAgent |
| Display name: | Cisco NAC Agent |
| Description: | “Cisco Network Admission Control Agent” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess, InteractiveProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| MSVCR90.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.38264878% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.27873802% | |
| User CPU: | 0.10391076% | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory: | 652 KB | |
| NACAgent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002396% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001864% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000532% | |
| Memory: | 1.22 MB | |
| advapi32.dll (Advanced Windows 32 Base API by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000266% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000266% | |
| Memory: | 620 KB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 |
40.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
40.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
20.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 80.00% of Cisco NAC Agent.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
66.67% |
|
| Sony |
33.33% |
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