SOHDs.exe
Sony Home Network Library by Sony Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 2.3.0.14180 |
| MD5: | 5fa03f5ea6efef6d17b4a1a48c40a23c |
| SHA1: | 750eb4758356bf8a38ff1017975b76dc916d7a27 |
| SHA256: | e99ad063da8e89ecd2993d1b1aab346a3eb4e48d687e7378c03037dd00600bb8 |
What is SOHDs.exe?
VAIO Device Searcher for the Sony Home Network Library is part of the VAIO Entertainment framework, software that enables the delivery and viewing of content (music, photos, videos and TV) among devices connected to a home network. The software is pre-installed with most VAIO PCs.
Overview
sohds.exe runs as a service under the name VAIO Media plus Device Searcher (SOHDs) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Sony Corporation which was issued by the Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | sohds.exe |
| Publisher: | Sony Corporation |
| Product name: | Sony Home Network Library |
| Description: | VAIO Device Searcher |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\sony shared\sohlib\sohds.exe |
| File version: | 2.3.0.14180 |
| Size: | 65.66 KB (67,232 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Sony Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, January 4, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'SOHDs' (VAIO Media plus Device Searcher)
- SOHDs
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 1900
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00546168% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00255348% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00290821% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 12,207,379 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 29,838/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 8.14 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 14.06 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.72 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 8.14 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 93.53 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 97.69 MB | |
| Working set: | 10.69 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 14.12 MB | |
| Page faults: | 12,095/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 578 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 124 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 8/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 23 | |
| Handles: | 387 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\sony shared\sohlib\sohds.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SOHDs |
| Display name: | VAIO Media plus Device Searcher |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| SOHDs.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00494143% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00236311% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00257832% | |
| CPU cycles: | 97,552/sec | |
| Memory: | 72 KB | |
| wow64cpu.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00154742% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00077371% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00077371% | |
| CPU cycles: | 21,314/sec | |
| Memory: | 32 KB | |
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 |
53.49% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
13.95% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
11.63% |
|
| Windows 8 |
11.63% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
2.33% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
2.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
2.33% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
2.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 27.91% of Sony Home Network Library.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
98.46% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
1.54% |
|
