pla.dll
Performance Logs & Alerts by Microsoft
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
There are 7 versions of pla.dll in the wild, the latest version being 6.3.9600.16384 (winblue_rtm.130821-1623). pla.dll is run as a standard windows process in the context of the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges. A job within the Windows Task Scheduler is added to execute this process of a specific schedule during installation of the program. The average file size is about 1.38 MB. The executable is a .NET framework assembly utilizing the CLR. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0003% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 5.56 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 9.62 MB. Addionally, typically read and write I/O disk operations is about 743 Bytes per minute for reads and 0 Bytes per minute for writes. 
|  Details
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| File name: | pla.dll | 
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation | 
| Product name: | Performance Logs & Alerts | 
| Description: | Microsoft® Windows® Operating System | 
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll | 
| Original name: | PLA.DLL.MUI | 
 Behaviors
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of pla.dll, select a unique version for details.)
Scheduled tasks
- The job 'RAM - Padrao' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\RAM - Padrao'
- The task 'New Data Collector Set' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\New Data Collector Set'
- The task 'LSC Memory' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\LSC Memory'
- The job 'System Overview' runs in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System Overview'
- The job 'ConvertLogEntries'  in the path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System\ConvertLogEntries'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System Overview'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\Server Manager Performance Monitor'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\KCTR$1179'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\New Data Collector Set'
- Entry path '\Microsoft\Windows\PLA\System\ConvertLogEntries'
Hosted services
Runs as a shared service under the Windows svcHost
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
- Shared name is 'pla'
 All file variations of pla.dll
All file variations of pla.dll
 Distribution by Windows OS
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution | 
| Windows Vista Home Premium | 52.38% |  | 
| Windows Vista Ultimate | 11.11% |  | 
| Windows 7 Professional | 7.94% |  | 
| Windows Vista Home Basic | 7.94% |  | 
| Windows 8 Single Language | 4.76% |  | 
| Windows 8 | 4.76% |  | 
| Windows 8.1 | 4.76% |  | 
| Windows Vista Business | 3.17% |  | 
| Windows Server 2008 Standard | 1.59% |  | 
| Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation | 1.59% |  | 
 Distribution by country
Distribution by country
United States installs about 58.33% of Performance Logs & Alerts.
 Distribution by PC manufacturer
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution | 
| Lenovo | 32.26% |  | 
| Dell | 22.58% |  | 
| Hewlett-Packard | 16.13% |  | 
| Sony | 12.90% |  | 
| ASUS | 9.68% |  | 
| Intel | 3.23% |  | 
| American Megatrends | 1.61% |  | 
| Samsung | 1.61% |  |