mcagent.exe
McAfee SecurityCenter by McAfee (Signed)
| Version: | 11,0,669,0 |
| MD5: | 488a04a29b4187478461fd564bdb7811 |
| SHA1: | 6376f35afddc6dc9d041b1774c366896783d6b4b |
| SHA256: | 3122779792c6927a72c1313c9ba7e5eddf7ca062157924743cab57729683ea27 |
What is mcagent.exe?
McAfee SecurityCenter is a security solution that allows users to monitor their computer's security status and to know instantly whether their computer's virus, spyware, e-mail, and firewall protection services are up-to-date. Most McAfee SecurityCenter builds offer trial subscriptions to McAfee’s security software. The program generates security alerts which notify users about emergency virus outbreaks and other important security related messages.
About mcagent.exe (from McAfee)
“McAfee SecurityCenter is comprehensive security that will deliver proactive protection and has been designed for your PC, with over 6,000 new online threats discovered everyday your McAfee software is”
Details
| File name: | mcagent.exe |
| Publisher: | McAfee, Inc. |
| Product name: | McAfee SecurityCenter |
| Description: | McAfee Security Center |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mcafee.com\agent\mcagent.exe |
| File version: | 11,0,669,0 |
| Product version: | 11,0,0,0 |
| Size: | 1.26 MB (1,318,816 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | McAfee |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Wednesday, October 5, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 5.906937 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 10.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'mcagent_exe' → C:\Program Files\McAfee.com\Agent\mcagent.exe /runkey
- 'mcpltui_exe' → "C:\Program Files\McAfee.com\Agent\mcagent.exe" /runkey
- 'mcui_exe' → "C:\Program Files\McAfee.com\Agent\mcagent.exe" /runkey
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.05011145% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.02388706% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02622439% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 67,642 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,108,195/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 41.27 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 18.23 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 568 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 41.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 230.05 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 240.21 MB | |
| Working set: | 3.73 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 37.23 MB | |
| Page faults: | 2,691,635/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 6.91 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 36/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2.05 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 11/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.54 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 148/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 23 | |
| Handles: | 650 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 75 | |
| GUI USER count: | 63 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| McMscShm.dll (McAfee SecurityCenter by McAfee) |
| Total CPU: | 0.06302549% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.04287593% | |
| User CPU: | 0.02014956% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,446,890/sec | |
| Memory: | 724 KB | |
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.05355166% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03783081% | |
| User CPU: | 0.01572086% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,078,912/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.27 MB | |
| mcagent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.02383338% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01432279% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00951059% | |
| CPU cycles: | 539,353/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.3 MB | |
| msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00388908% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000159% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00388749% | |
| CPU cycles: | 52,681/sec | |
| Memory: | 680 KB | |
| mshtml.dll (Windows Internet Explorer by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00116209% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00116010% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000199% | |
| CPU cycles: | 41,588/sec | |
| Memory: | 11.77 MB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005184% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00003987% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001196% | |
| CPU cycles: | 696/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.16 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
39.53% |
|
| Windows 8 |
18.60% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
6.98% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
5.23% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
5.23% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.07% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
4.07% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
3.49% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
3.49% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
2.91% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Single Language |
2.33% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
1.16% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
1.16% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.16% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
0.58% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 62.79% of McAfee SecurityCenter.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
28.72% |
|
| ASUS |
16.41% |
|
| Sony |
14.36% |
|
| Acer |
13.33% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
10.77% |
|
| Toshiba |
8.21% |
|
| Lenovo |
3.08% |
|
| Intel |
3.08% |
|
| Alienware |
1.03% |
|
| Gateway |
1.03% |
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