Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
Relationships
Parent process
Child processes
Related files
Plex Media Server.exe
Plex Media Server by Plex (Signed)
| Version: | 0.9.7.22 |
| MD5: | f3f238b62e6eff9e217d55b193d46f55 |
| SHA1: | e3be80712e7a621f43f7b80b13b48b12e68754aa |
| SHA256: | a8ec50c2ce50299d0d252a9cb1c54f47a92697746a16e22f02518a9817a63090 |
Overview
plex media server.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). This is typically installed with the program Plex Media Server published by Plex, Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Plex which was issued by the DigiCert Inc certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | plex media server.exe |
| Publisher: | Plex, Inc. |
| Product name: | Plex Media Server |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\plex\plex media server\plex media server.exe |
| File version: | 0.9.7.22 |
| Size: | 3.83 MB (4,014,760 bytes) |
| Build date: | 4/3/2013 5:53 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Plex |
| Authority (CA): | DigiCert Inc |
| Effective date: | Monday, May 14, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, August 29, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“It's easy to watch movie files on a computer monitor. But, what happens when your collection starts to get large? How do you find the show you want to watch easily? How do you know you've watched an episode, or where you stopped it last night? How do you share the media files over several screens? What about content from the Internet?
The Plex Media Server solves these problems by gathering information about your media and storing it o...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Plex Media Server' → "C:\Program Files\Plex\Plex Media Server\Plex Media Server.exe"
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 50430
[UDP] listens on port 59468
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00107749% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00053041% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00054708% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 75,684 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,424,922/sec | |
| Context switches: | 21/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 39.48 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 42.2 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 32.87 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 39.48 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 257.05 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 278.6 MB | |
| Working set: | 34.5 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 49.93 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,209,088/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 95.36 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 3/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 351 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 3/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 15.4 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 2,047/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 36 | |
| Handles: | 516 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 58 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 70 | |
| GUI USER count: | 22 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 44 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
75.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
12.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
12.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 87.50% of Plex Media Server.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
40.00% |
|
| Intel |
40.00% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.00% |
|
