pla.dll
Performance Logs & Alerts by Microsoft
| Version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| MD5: | 6e84bff58f7643499277f29dfa2f8c8d |
| SHA1: | 43b086ca77f1fbb4468b74c2f620631f9800f0f2 |
This is a Windows system installed file with Windows File Protection (WFP) enabled.
Overview
pla.dll executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges). The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). This version is installed on Windows 8 and is compiled as a 64 bit program.
Details
| 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 |
| File version: | 6.2.9200.16384 (win8_rtm.120725-1247) |
| Product version: | 6.2.9200.16384 |
| Size: | 1.32 MB (1,379,840 bytes) |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.102473 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Behaviors
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'
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Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00097992% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00052221% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00045770% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 141 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 25,468/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.02 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.63 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.59 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.02 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 68.15 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 78.64 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.63 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.63 MB | |
| Page faults: | 10,572/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.35 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 3/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 198 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll,plahost "lsc memory" "0x1970_0x284_0x4b1342da16"
- C:\Windows\System32\rundll32.exe C:\Windows\System32\pla.dll,plahost "lsc memory" "0x1ce8_0x1bd4_0x2b7bfca5ce"
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| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Threads
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
52.38% |
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| Windows Vista Ultimate |
11.11% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
7.94% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
7.94% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.76% |
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| Windows 8 |
4.76% |
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| Windows 8.1 |
4.76% |
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| Windows Vista Business |
3.17% |
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| Windows Server 2008 Standard |
1.59% |
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| Windows Server 2012 Standard Evaluation |
1.59% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 58.33% of Performance Logs & Alerts.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
32.26% |
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| Dell |
22.58% |
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| Hewlett-Packard |
16.13% |
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| Sony |
12.90% |
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| ASUS |
9.68% |
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| Intel |
3.23% |
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| American Megatrends |
1.61% |
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| Samsung |
1.61% |
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