acs.exe
Atheros Configuration Service (ACS) by Atheros Communications Inc. (Signed)
| Version: | 5.2.0.124 |
| MD5: | adcd97e228433e55840214cf0d3762ac |
| SHA1: | 06866eadeb2cb0947c4d8eb7430f4a0fc0ecd66b |
| SHA256: | 4dbc4d53c21c43ecc722d8978f60d3818c6f7f5692d3c81d85f516a2ee54f4b0 |
What is acs.exe?
The Atheros Configuration Service (ACS) is a Windows Service that handles wireless configuration and authentication. It is also an alternate to the built-in Windows Wireless Zero Config (WZC) service.
Overview
acs.exe runs as a service under the name Atheros beállítási szolgáltatás (ACS) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Atheros Communications Inc. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | acs.exe |
| Publisher: | Atheros |
| Product name: | Atheros Configuration Service (ACS) |
| Description: | ACS |
| Typical file path: | C:\Windows\System32\acs.exe |
| File version: | 5.2.0.124 |
| Size: | 356.08 KB (364,629 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Atheros Communications Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Friday, January 4, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'ACS' (Atheros beállítási szolgáltatás)
- ACS
Network connections
[UDP] listens on port 16897
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00249710% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00124855% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00124855% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,656 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 26/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 5.98 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 8.48 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 8.43 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 5.98 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 64.58 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 67.58 MB | |
| Working set: | 8.43 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 8.53 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,553/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 976 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 54.31 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1,616/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 14 | |
| Handles: | 178 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 4 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | C:\Windows\System32\acs.exe |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | ACS |
| Display name: | Atheros beállítási szolgáltatás |
| Description: | “Gives access to single sign on and a mechanism to communicate with the supplicant for security negotiation.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Threads
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
100.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 24.14% of Atheros Configuration Service (ACS).
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
37.50% |
|
| Toshiba |
18.75% |
|
| Compaq |
12.50% |
|
| MSI |
12.50% |
|
| American Megatrends |
9.38% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
9.38% |
|
