WiFiMsg.exe
HP Wireless Assistant by Hewlett-Packard Company (Signed)
Overview
wifimsg.exe has 4 known versions, the most recent one is 3.0.4.1. wifimsg.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows. The average file size is about 308.18 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Hewlett-Packard Company by the certification authority Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd.. Some variations of the file have been seen to be installed with the program HP Wireless Assistant from Hewlett-Packard. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is about 0.0013% including both foreground and background operations, the average private memory consumption is about 2.48 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 4.75 MB and typical read I/O operations are around 13 Bytes per minute.
What is wifimsg.exe?
Module to process WiFi messages is part of the HP Wireless Assistant which is a user application that provides a way to control the enablement of individual wireless devices (such as Bluetooth, WLAN, or WWAN devices) and that shows the state of the radios for these wireless devices.
Details |
File name: | wifimsg.exe |
Publisher: | Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. |
Product name: | HP Wireless Assistant |
Description: | Module to process WiFi messages. |
Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\hewlett-packard\hp wireless assistant\wifimsg.exe |
Certificate |
Issued to: | Hewlett-Packard Company |
Authority (CA): | Thawte Consulting (Pty) Ltd. |
Effective date: | Friday, April 8, 2005 |
Expiration date: | Saturday, April 7, 2007 |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of HP Wireless Assistant.)
This program contains the HP Wireless Assistant for the supported notebook models and operating systems. The HP Wireless Assistant reports the power state and Microsoft Windows Device Manager status o...
Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of wifimsg.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'WAWifiMessage' → C:\Program Files\Hewlett-Packard\HP Wireless Assistant\WiFiMsg.exe
All file variations of wifimsg.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
OS version | distribution |
Windows Vista Home Premium |
37.50% |
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Windows Vista Business |
25.00% |
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Windows Vista Home Basic |
25.00% |
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Windows 8.1 |
12.50% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 42.86% of HP Wireless Assistant.