AOLDial.exe

AOL Connectivity Service by America Online (Signed)

Version:	2.0.20.1.US.1
MD5:	c470f57fb6c4b4df32d694ce0fd2b387
SHA1:	4dbfdbde8d0099d3c8eaeae81bc62d53e31cf85e
SHA256:	8da0af075eac6a16acdb8a3f020b3032264f996ba64c9d9e8a4d077c9365124a

What is AOLDial.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.

About AOLDial.exe (from America Online)

“The AOL software uses ACS to connect to the AOL service.”

Overview

AOLDial.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. 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 has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. This is typically installed with the program Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14 published by Trend Micro Inc.. The file is digitally signed by America Online which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	AOLDial.exe
Publisher:	America Online, Inc
Product name:	AOL Connectivity Service
Description:	AOL Connectivity Service Dialer
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\common files\aol\acs\aoldial.exe
File version:	2.0.20.1.US.1
Size:	485.11 KB (496,752 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	America Online
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Wednesday, October 22, 2003
Expiration date:	Sunday, October 24, 2004
Digital DNA
Entropy:	6.303263
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Programs

The following program will install this file

Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14

Trend Micro Inc.

1% remove

“Trend Micro PC-cillin Internet Security 14 provides advanced protection and privacy for your digital life - keeping you, your family, and your valuable digital files safe. It's designed to safeguard you on social networks like Facebook, Google+, and Twitter. Titanium Internet Security delivers a fastest protection against new web threats and also guards against identity theft. With Trend Micro, you can relax and enjoy your digital life ...”

Behaviors

Startup files (all users) run

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

'AOLDialer' → C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\ACS\AOLDial.exe

Windows firewall allowed programs

Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections

Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\ACS\AOLDial.exe'

Resource utilization

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

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00010264%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00007776%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00002489%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	844 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	7.42 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	804 KB
Private (minimum):	804 KB
Non-paged memory:	7.42 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	74.8 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	77.27 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	812 KB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	8.93 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	20,587/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	934 Bytes/sec	1.02 MB/min
I/O read operations:	1/sec	343/min
I/O write transfer:	0 Bytes/sec	274.99 KB/min
I/O write operations:	1/sec	227/min
I/O other transfer:	207 Bytes/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	12/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	13	12
Handles:	409	600
GUI GDI count:	20	103
GUI USER count:	21	49