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60% of PCs block this file from running.
Possible reason:
Performance resource utilization
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acsd.exe
AOL Connectivity Service by America Online (Signed)
| Version: | 1,0,22,1 |
| MD5: | 7810fe98adb56a4d908595926d75bc9a |
| SHA1: | 7a67b3e2355304ce5f2addf1b372b3c2803891a6 |
What is acsd.exe?
AOL Connectivity Service attempts to automatically restore yoru AOL connection should you lose it while online which negates having to go through the standard AOL procedure of signing back on manually. The AOL software uses ACS to connect to the AOL service.
Overview
acsd.exe runs as a service under the name AOL ACS within the local user context. The file is digitally signed by America Online which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | acsd.exe |
| Publisher: | America Online, Inc. |
| Product name: | AOL Connectivity Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\aol\acs\acsd.exe |
| File version: | 1,0,22,1 |
| Size: | 1.32 MB (1,388,648 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | America Online |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, October 22, 2003 |
| Expiration date: | Sunday, October 24, 2004 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Network connections
[TCP] ats-dab.dial.aol.com (64.236.16.17:5190)
[UDP] listens on port 1165
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00093738% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00060170% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00033568% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 16,828 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 18/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.33 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.72 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 764 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.33 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 67.2 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 84.75 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.72 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 4.01 MB | |
| Page faults: | 12,496/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 2.37 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 329 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 284.61 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 628/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 20 | |
| Handles: | 264 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00523898% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00352243% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00171656% | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 352 KB | |
| acsd.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00004629% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004629% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| Memory: | 1.35 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
66.67% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
33.33% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of AOL Connectivity Service.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Toshiba |
100.00% |
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