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, 14, 00 |
| MD5: | dfb1f3063b7d686996c14f8e6f1aa92e |
| SHA1: | fff45ae61d6bcab0c9e6288f1eb9f418b1431768 |
| SHA256: | a873d1f7b556a167e8ab571b06e8c796e9f225a80f28a51606f0d20947afc1be |
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, 14, 00 |
| Size: | 473.9 KB (485,272 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: | 0.00011063% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006529% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004533% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,966 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.32 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.23 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 1.2 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.32 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 80.44 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 87.02 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.04 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 24.92 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 3 | |
| Handles: | 75 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 22 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 24 | |
| GUI USER count: | 15 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 15 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | High |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | searchprotection.exe -n "ad-aware search protection" -hp "safesearchr.lavasoft.com" -sp "safesearchr.lavasoft.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% |
|
