Should I block it?

No, this file is 100% safe to run.

Relationships

Parent process

aoltsmon.exe (AOL TopSpeed Monitor by America Online)

Related files

PE file structure

Show functions

Import table

kernel32.dll

HeapDestroy, GetProcAddress, LoadLibraryA, VirtualFree, HeapCreate, GetModuleHandleA, GetStartupInfoA, GetCommandLineA, GetVersion, ExitProcess, TerminateProcess, GetCurrentProcess, UnhandledExceptionFilter, GetModuleFileNameA, FreeEnvironmentStringsA, FreeEnvironmentStringsW, WideCharToMultiByte, GetEnvironmentStrings, GetEnvironmentStringsW, SetHandleCount, GetStdHandle, GetFileType, GetCurrentThreadId, TlsSetValue, TlsAlloc, SetLastError, TlsGetValue, GetLastError, GetEnvironmentVariableA, GetVersionExA, FreeLibrary, MultiByteToWideChar, HeapFree, RtlUnwind, WriteFile, InitializeCriticalSection, EnterCriticalSection, LeaveCriticalSection, GetCPInfo, GetACP, GetOEMCP, HeapAlloc, VirtualAlloc, HeapReAlloc, LCMapStringA, LCMapStringW, GetStringTypeA, GetStringTypeW, InterlockedDecrement, InterlockedIncrement

aoltpspd.exe

AOL TopSpeed by America Online (Signed)

Remove aoltpspd.exe

Version:	2, 0, 0, 0
MD5:	caf7c2fddadf73a02ac84c6fb6030bbf
SHA1:	41655f98c3b4e6e86a21a8ba5aea82793901b22f
SHA256:	757e522fa11f7bbf9d91c5cbbbf9a1226cf18f0d6da8134b6a514652372b22e1

About aoltpspd.exe (from America Online)

“The AOL TopSpeed Web acceleration technology is a feature designed to speed up the Web browsing experience on your AOL Desktop Software. The TopSpeed technology creates its own local browser cache on ”

Overview

aoltpspd.exe executes as a process under the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges (the system and the administrator accounts have the same file privileges) typically within the context of its parent aoltsmon.exe (AOL TopSpeed Monitor by America Online). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. The file is digitally signed by America Online which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).

Details

File name:	aoltpspd.exe
Publisher:	America Online Inc
Product name:	AOL TopSpeed(TM)
Typical file path:	C:\Program Files\common files\aol\topspeed\2.0\aoltpspd.exe
File version:	2, 0, 0, 0
Size:	45.67 KB (46,768 bytes)
Certificate
Issued to:	America Online
Authority (CA):	VeriSign
Effective date:	Thursday, October 7, 2004
Expiration date:	Saturday, October 8, 2005
Digital DNA
File packed:	No
.NET CLR:	No

More details

Behaviors

Windows firewall allowed program

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

Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Common Files\AOL\TopSpeed\2.0\aoltpspd.exe'

Resource utilization

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

Averages

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00373631%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00180852%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00192778%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	8,249 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
CPU cycles:	16,048,498/sec	17,470,203/sec
Context switches:	112/sec	284/sec
Memory
Private memory:	1.77 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	2.78 MB
Private (minimum):	887 KB
Non-paged memory:	1.77 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	48.34 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	49.19 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	1.05 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	4.53 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	1,692/min	2,039/min
I/O
I/O read transfer:	971 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:	116.24 KB/sec	448.09 KB/min
I/O other operations:	7,444/sec	1,671/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	3	12
Handles:	102	600
GUI GDI count:	11	103
GUI USER count:	3	49

Process properties

Integrety level:	System
Platform:	64-bit
Owner:	SYSTEM
Parent process:	aoltsmon.exe (AOL TopSpeed Monitor by America Online)

Threads

Averages

velocity.dll (AOL TopSpeed by America Online Inc)
Total CPU:	0.00596104%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00303471%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00292633%	0.165382%
Context switches:	56/sec	79/sec
Memory:	604 KB	1.16 MB
aoltpspd.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00577592%
Kernel CPU:	0.00293573%
User CPU:	0.00284019%
CPU cycles:	4,322,640/sec
Memory:	44 KB