prtg probe.exe
PRTG Probe by Paessler AG (Signed)
| Version: | 12.4.7.3506 |
| MD5: | 0b77eba91f690c29a3d36380ba3cd264 |
| SHA1: | 58751d3a6701e170e3dfbb38a8e5867600a71d8f |
About prtg probe.exe (from Paessler AG)
“PRTG Network Monitor runs on a Windows machine within your network, collecting various statistics from the machines, software, and devices which you designate. (It can also autodiscover them, helping”
Overview
prtg probe.exe runs as a service under the name PRTG Probe Service (PRTGProbeService) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). This is typically installed with the program PRTG Network Monitor published by Paessler AG. The file is digitally signed by Paessler AG which was issued by the The USERTRUST Network certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | prtg probe.exe |
| Publisher: | Paessler AG |
| Product name: | PRTG Probe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\prtg network monitor\prtg probe.exe |
| File version: | 12.4.7.3506 |
| Product version: | 12.4.7.3506 |
| Size: | 8.07 MB (8,466,704 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Paessler AG |
| Authority (CA): | The USERTRUST Network |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
“An advanced, easy-to-use monitoring solution for your entire network. The software's features include: up/downtime monitoring, traffic and usage monitoring, packet sniffing, failover clustering, in-depth analysis and concise reporting. A user-friendly web-based interface allows users to quickly auto-discover and configure the network devices and sensors they wish to monitor. All common methods for acquiring network usage data are suppor...”
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'PRTGProbeService' (PRTG Probe Service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00083237% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00045080% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00038157% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 170,187,731 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 7,715,020/sec | |
| Context switches: | 19/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 14.81 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 26.28 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 21.14 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 14.81 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 124.89 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 136.42 MB | |
| Working set: | 25.46 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 26.4 MB | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 37.64 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1,481/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2.92 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 25.36 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 388/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 21 | |
| Handles: | 377 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\prtg network monitor\prtg probe.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | PRTGProbeService |
| Display name: | PRTG Probe Service |
| Description: | “Performs network monitoring using various network protocols (including SNMP, WMI, HTTP, packet sniffing, NetFlow, and others) for PRTG Network Monitor (www.paessler.com/prtg)” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| wow64.dll (Win32 Emulation on NT64 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.07041845% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04057117% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02984728% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,131,752/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| PRTG Probe.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.01486219% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01006676% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00479542% | |
| CPU cycles: | 302,706/sec | |
| Memory: | 8.64 MB | |
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 |
66.67% |
|
| Windows 8 Release Preview |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 66.67% of PRTG Probe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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