vprot.exe
By AVG Technologies (Signed)
| MD5: | 7d6901af39f984043dd45846afebfefb |
| SHA1: | 98f4195c12474efdbfb989d08b68945afd0823f4 |
| SHA256: | 14508d591f869b259a7bbb2c70648dcd821e38df52998567275fb4ec2d192abb |
Overview
vprot.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be start when the PC boots and any user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the all users under the local machine). It is installed with a couple of know programs including AVG Security Toolbar published by AVG Technologies, AVG Security Toolbar from AVG Technologies and AVG Security Toolbar by AVG Technologies. The file is digitally signed by AVG Technologies which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | vprot.exe |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\avg secure search\vprot.exe |
| Size: | 2.29 MB (2,404,376 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/29/2013 7:58 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | AVG Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Saturday, March 23, 2013 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, April 23, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
The AVG Security Toolbar is included in AVG Technologies’s family of security software, as a standalone program, and as a third party bundles. AVG Security Toolbar incluedes a link scanner that displays security information about websites. The toolbar offers search, weather information, a link to a speedtest and other features that are not really related to security.
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'vProt' → "C:\Program Files\AVG Secure Search\vprot.exe"
Network connections
[TCP] 213.94.75.137:80
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.02583372% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01599634% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00983738% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 85,386,780 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 804,413/sec | |
| Context switches: | 62/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 18.45 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 24.55 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 13.2 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 18.45 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 126.16 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 145.58 MB | |
| Working set: | 16.75 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 35.14 MB | |
| Page faults: | 1,469,198/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 7.01 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 5.79 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 4/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 239 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 45/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 14 | |
| Handles: | 291 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 13 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 14 | |
| GUI USER count: | 16 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 18 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\avg secure search\vprot.exe"
- "C:\Program Files\avg secure search\vprot.exe" /afterinstall
|
| Owner: | User |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| vprot.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.24481207% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.15172209% | |
| User CPU: | 0.09308999% | |
| CPU cycles: | 9,329,395/sec | |
| Context switches: | 7/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.3 MB | |
| log4cplusu.dll (log4cplu Dynamic Link Library) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00247170% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00247170% | |
| CPU cycles: | 37,458/sec | |
| Memory: | 520 KB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00133211% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00133211% | |
| CPU cycles: | 503/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001985% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001191% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000794% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,164/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
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 |
53.57% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
28.57% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
7.14% |
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| Windows 8 |
3.57% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
3.57% |
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| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
3.57% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 46.43% of vprot.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| ASUS |
22.22% |
|
| Acer |
19.44% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
16.67% |
|
| Lenovo |
16.67% |
|
| Toshiba |
16.67% |
|
| Dell |
5.56% |
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| GIGABYTE |
2.78% |
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