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vim.exe

VAIO Control Center by Sony Corporation (Signed)

Version:	6.2.1.03070
MD5:	2ef41061375702ee60ce08997daace66
SHA1:	02937a86ba4553a39fb4eecaf049e7492cc2c9e0

Overview

vim.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It is an auto-starting process that used the Windows Task Scheduler service to load when the user logs into Windows (sometimes this is required to bypass the UAC protection). The file is digitally signed by Sony Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	vim.exe
Publisher:	Sony Corporation
Product name:	VAIO Control Center
Description:	VAIO Control Center (vim Module)
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\sony\vaio control center\vim.exe
File version:	6.2.1.03070
Size:	481.09 KB (492,632 bytes)
Build date:	3/7/2013 12:44 PM
Certificate
Issued to:	Sony Corporation
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Wednesday, February 27, 2013
Expiration date:	Saturday, March 8, 2014
Digital DNA
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Behaviors

Scheduled tasks

The job 'VAIOControlCenterUser' runs on logon in the path '\Sony Corporation\VAIO Control Center\VAIOControlCenterUser'
The job 'VAIOControlCenterSystem' runs on boot in the path '\Sony Corporation\VAIO Control Center\VAIOControlCenterSystem'

Scheduled tasks startups

Set to load on user login (bypasses Windows UAC if enabled)

Resource utilization

(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00022474%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00015614%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00006860%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	441 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	23,714/sec	17,470,203/sec
Memory
Private memory:	3.38 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	5.57 MB
Private (minimum):	775 KB
Non-paged memory:	3.38 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	99.56 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	106.1 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	1.16 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	10.52 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	24,693/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	12 Bytes/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	30 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	36 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	2/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	8	12
Handles:	207	600
GUI GDI count:	34	103
GUI GDI peak:	36	142
GUI USER count:	10	49
GUI USER peak:	14	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	System
Platform:	64-bit
Command lines:	"C:\Program Files\sony\vaio control center\vim.exe" -user "C:\Program Files\sony\vaio control center\vim.exe" -system
Owner:	User
Parent process:	services.exe (by Microsoft)

Threads

Averages

vim.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00042824%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00031914%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00010910%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	12,895/sec	5,741,424/sec
Memory:	492 KB	1.16 MB
wwapi.dll
Total CPU:	0.00020347%
Kernel CPU:	0.00009391%
User CPU:	0.00010956%
CPU cycles:	11,867/sec
Memory:	68 KB
viaggregator.dll (VAIO Improvement by Sony)
Total CPU:	0.00011084%
Kernel CPU:	0.00008861%
User CPU:	0.00002223%
CPU cycles:	1,273/sec
Memory:	224 KB
ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00007754%
Kernel CPU:	0.00005589%
User CPU:	0.00002166%
CPU cycles:	4,102/sec
Memory:	1.75 MB
wlanapi.dll
Total CPU:	0.00001103%
Kernel CPU:	0.00000000%
User CPU:	0.00001103%
CPU cycles:	1,020/sec
Memory:	280 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 8 Single Language	100.00%

Distribution by country

Ecuador installs about 85.71% of VAIO Control Center.

Distribution by PC manufacturer

PC Manufacturer	distribution
Sony	100.00%

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