cssauth.exe
Client Security Solution by Lenovo Information Products (Shenzhen) Co. (Signed)
| Version: | 8.30.0027.00 |
| MD5: | 57c4f3063cef84343ddf6e8045adb50c |
| SHA1: | 10900e28d006fcd628e18d388bfcc77b0c71a5a0 |
| SHA256: | ad8827f2a28858e4bf40eff16105fb0211042e33202ca43ac082eac8361b1959 |
Overview
cssauth.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. 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). This is typically installed with the program Client Security - Password Manager published by Lenovo. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Lenovo Information Products (Shenzhen) Co. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | cssauth.exe |
| Publisher: | Lenovo Group Limited |
| Product name: | Client Security Solution |
| Description: | CSS Authentication Provider |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\lenovo\client security solution\cssauth.exe |
| File version: | 8.30.0027.00 |
| Size: | 5.71 MB (5,990,200 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Lenovo Information Products (Shenzhen) Co. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, March 11, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Saturday, June 2, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
ThinkVantage Password Manager allows users to save passwords for Web sites and Windows applications, and subsequently auto-fills those passwords when the user visits those Web sites or logs on to the application. Password Manager provides a user interface that allows the user to review and modify entries stored in the password database. The user interface also allows the user to configure the application's settings.
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'cssauth' → "C:\Program Files\Lenovo\Client Security Solution\cssauth.exe" silent
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01251915% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00505384% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00746531% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,607 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,545,814/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.46 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 13.68 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 852 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.46 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 105.05 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 108.05 MB | |
| Working set: | 1.1 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 13.74 MB | |
| Page faults: | 4,123/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 34 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 8 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 42 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 3,285/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 224 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 15 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 17 | |
| GUI USER count: | 5 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 5 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
50.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 50.00% of Client Security Solution.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Lenovo |
100.00% |
|
