Should I block it?
45% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
Additional versions
SearchProtection.exe
Search Protection by Lavasoft Limited (Signed)
| Version: | 1, 0, 30, 00 |
| MD5: | 74f3ded90d66a9b0a9158df9fce6f2e1 |
| SHA1: | a7dac907b9e9b5f17d481066592bf7e514997101 |
| SHA256: | 7a824804ef89cd5c1076db1ea636a42855e0e9150208a2dc5fc96dccab5224f1 |
Overview
searchprotection.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. The file is digitally signed by Lavasoft Limited which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | searchprotection.exe |
| Publisher: | Lavasoft. |
| Product name: | Search Protection |
| Typical file path: | C:\ProgramData\search protection\searchprotection.exe |
| File version: | 1, 0, 30, 00 |
| Size: | 657.41 KB (673,192 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Lavasoft Limited |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013794% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00007323% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00006471% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 77,220 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,312,353/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 8.7 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.1 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.03 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 8.7 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 108.02 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 110.77 MB | |
| Working set: | 10.28 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 13.1 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,278/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 131 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 23 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 13 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 17 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | searchprotection.exe -n "ad-aware search protection" -sp "lavasoft.blekko.com" |
| Owner: | User |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
50.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
Australia installs about 50.00% of Search Protection.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
|
