Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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steamservice.exe
Steam Client Service by Valve (Signed)
| Version: | 01.71.49.02 |
| MD5: | 7d768a6e494a0b28a7d49ae6859d3296 |
| SHA1: | 636226d3e2fbdd7e4354583b938260c239f9ab0e |
| SHA256: | aaadddc3d37e9f310a77b313e361c396d437574f901e4dcf6d454df1542d6e72 |
What is steamservice.exe?
Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer platform developed by Valve. It is used to distribute games and related media online. Steam's primary service is to allow its users to download games and other software that they have in their virtual software library to their local computers. Steam provides digital rights management (DRM) for software titles, by providing "custom executable generation" for executable files that are unique for each user.
About steamservice.exe (from Valve)
“We have over 2,000 games from Action to Indie and everything in-between. Enjoy exclusive deals, automatic game updates and other great perks. Meet new people, join game groups, form clans, chat in-gam”
Details
| File name: | steamservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Valve Corporation |
| Product name: | Steam Client Service |
| Description: | Steam Client Service (buildbot_winslave01_steam_rel_client_win32@winslave01) |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\steam\steamservice.exe |
| Original name: | SteamSer.exe |
| File version: | 01.71.49.02 |
| Product version: | 01.00.00.01 |
| Size: | 530.91 KB (543,656 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Valve |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, November 24, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, November 23, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.581789 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Steam is a digital distribution, digital rights management, multiplayer and communications platform developed by Valve Corporation. It is used to distribute games and related media online, from small independent developers to larger software houses; Valve expanded the service to include non-gaming software. Steam provides the user with installation and automatic management of software across multiple computers, community features such a...
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002177% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000836% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001340% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 78 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 4,134,457/sec | |
| Context switches: | 20/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.88 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.97 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 9.75 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.88 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 66.89 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 69.42 MB | |
| Working set: | 9.94 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 10.05 MB | |
| Page faults: | 5,513/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 1.21 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 145 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\steam\steamservice.exe" /runasservice |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Steam Client Service |
| Display name: | Steam Client Service |
| Description: | “Steam Client Service monitors and updates Steam content” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
39.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
14.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
8.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
6.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
6.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro |
3.00% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
2.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
0.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro N |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 44.22% of Steam Client Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
17.39% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.78% |
|
| Acer |
14.35% |
|
| ASUS |
13.91% |
|
| Lenovo |
11.30% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.09% |
|
| Sony |
6.09% |
|
| Alienware |
3.04% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
3.04% |
|
| MSI |
2.61% |
|
| Intel |
2.61% |
|
| American Megatrends |
2.17% |
|
| Samsung |
1.30% |
|
| Apple |
0.87% |
|
| Sahara |
0.43% |
|
