Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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FwcAgent.exe
Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 4.0 |
| MD5: | 024c0e47ac6cf525f558400ae09ca63d |
| SHA1: | b6316d4eb26ffb864f952c2a978c2e771986c289 |
| SHA256: | fa3b8e56c923feafc3899a65b0dc46203f4fc7bef18535aed0cae359116e2200 |
What is FwcAgent.exe?
Microsoft Firewall Client Agent is a software component of Microsoft Windows that provides firewalling and packet filtering functions. The firewall is based on the Windows Filtering Platform. With the advanced packet filter, rules can also be specified for source and destination IP addresses and port ranges.
About FwcAgent.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“A Firewall client is a computer with Firewall Client software installed and enabled. Windows Sockets (Winsock) applications running on Firewall clients can send requests to remote destinations trans”
Details
| File name: | FwcAgent.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft (R) Corporation |
| Product name: | Microsoft Internet Security and Acceleration Server |
| Description: | Microsoft Firewall Client Agent |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\microsoft firewall client 2004\fwcagent.exe |
| File version: | 4.0 |
| Size: | 125.81 KB (128,832 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, April 4, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.408360 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'FwcAgent' (Firewall Client Agent)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000139% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000071% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000067% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 828 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.04 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 2.96 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.96 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.04 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 18.5 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 34.69 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.96 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.2 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 8 | |
| Handles: | 325 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 4 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\microsoft firewall client 2004\fwcagent.exe" |
| Owner: | LOCAL SERVICE |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\FwcAgent |
| Display name: | Firewall Client Agent |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows XP Professional |
100.00% |
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