Should I block it?

No, this file is 100% safe to run.

Additional versions

1, 0, 1, 35	38.89%
1, 0, 0, 0	27.78%
1, 0, 0, 0	5.56%
1, 0, 0, 0	11.11%
1, 0, 0, 0	16.67%

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adawarebp.dll (Anti-phishing Domain Advisor by Lavasoft Limited)

adawarebp.exe

Anti-phishing Domain Advisor by Lavasoft Limited (Signed)

Remove adawarebp.exe

Version:	1, 0, 0, 0
MD5:	f3c41b7ae649aebd81db698becbe351e
SHA1:	351ed8f90720e8eda5846ddddb1d00ba784958fb

What is adawarebp.exe?

Ad-Aware Browsing Protection is part of Ad-Aware, an anti-spyware and anti-virus program developed by Lavasoft that detects and removes malware, spyware and adware on a user's computer. According to Lavasoft, Ad-Aware detects spyware, computer viruses, dialers, Trojans, bots, rootkits, data miners, aggressive advertising, parasites, browser hijackers, and tracking components.

About adawarebp.exe (from Lavasoft Limited)

“Built upon our legendary anti-spyware and antivirus protection, Ad-Aware real-time web-filtering technology safeguards your PC against phishing attacks and online scams, allowing you to stay protected”

Details

File name:	adawarebp.exe
Publisher:	Lavasoft
Product name:	Anti-phishing Domain Advisor
Description:	Ad-Aware Browsing Protection and Anti-Phishing
Typical file path:	C:\ProgramData\ad-aware browsing protection\adawarebp.exe
File version:	1, 0, 0, 0
Product version:	1.0
Size:	541.39 KB (554,384 bytes)
Build date:	6/21/2013 12:26 PM
Certificate
Issued to:	Lavasoft Limited
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Digital DNA
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Programs

The following programs will install this file

Ad-Aware Browsing Protection

Lavasoft

52% remove

The Ad-Aware Browsing Protection add-in changes the default search and home page URLs of the user's web browsers. Installs a Visicom toolbar in your Web browser that collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Visicom via applicationstat.com so they can suggest services or provide ads via the toolbar. Ad-Aware Browsing Protection will also modify the web browser settings for DNS error pag...

Behaviors

Startup files (all users) run

Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'

'Ad-Aware Browsing Protection' → "C:\ProgramData\Ad-Aware Browsing Protection\adawarebp.exe"

Resource utilization

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

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00025264%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00012485%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00012779%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	7,160 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	2,954,377/sec	17,470,203/sec
Memory
Private memory:	6.45 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	21.27 MB
Private (minimum):	5.74 MB
Non-paged memory:	6.45 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	88.68 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	109.22 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	7.82 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	22.42 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	79,790/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	20.94 KB/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	10/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	438 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	1.01 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	89/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	4	12
Handles:	220	600
GUI GDI count:	9	103
GUI GDI peak:	9	142
GUI USER count:	2	49
GUI USER peak:	3	71

Process properties

Integrety level:	Medium
Platform:	64-bit
Command line:	"C:\ProgramData\ad-aware browsing protection\adawarebp.exe"
Owner:	User

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