McOds.exe
McAfee VirusScan by McAfee (Signed)
| Version: | 15,6,231,0 |
| MD5: | 28e03d380182660db0f4a3de89e7272f |
| SHA1: | 1c38c4963b76c63477c51107389a01d6a1f34d9b |
What is McOds.exe?
McAfee VirusScan is an antivirus program created and maintained by McAfee Inc. The program is not available as a standalone package, but is included in the McAfee VirusScan Plus package or as part of McAfee Internet Security Suite.
About McOds.exe (from McAfee)
“Essential security software so you can surf, shop, and socialize online while our anti-virus software, anti-malware, and firewall keep you safe. Relentless security software scans and blocks dangerous”
Overview
mcods.exe runs as a service under the name McAfee Scanner (McODS) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by McAfee which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | mcods.exe |
| Publisher: | McAfee, Inc. |
| Product name: | McAfee VirusScan |
| Description: | McAfee VirusScan On-Demand Scan |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mcafee\virusscan\mcods.exe |
| File version: | 15,6,231,0 |
| Product version: | 15,6,0,0 |
| Size: | 374.62 KB (383,608 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | McAfee |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, December 31, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'McODS' (McAfee Scanner)
- McODS
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005752% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004819% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000933% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 113,647 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,559,405/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 12.36 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 11.14 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 576 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 12.36 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 132.21 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 143.62 MB | |
| Working set: | 4.22 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 38.16 MB | |
| Page faults: | 29,172/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 272 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 19.09 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 574/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 12 | |
| Handles: | 401 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\mcafee\virusscan\mcods.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | McODS |
| Display name: | McAfee Scanner |
| Description: | “McAfee Scanner” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| ole32.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00001396% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001396% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,178/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.01 MB | |
| mcods.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000931% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000931% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 52/sec | |
| Memory: | 384 KB | |
| msvcr100.dll (Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000931% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000233% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000698% | |
| CPU cycles: | 145/sec | |
| Memory: | 840 KB | |
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 |
42.05% |
|
| Windows 8 |
20.45% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
7.95% |
|
| Windows 8 Single Language |
4.55% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
4.55% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
4.55% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
4.55% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
3.41% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
2.27% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
2.27% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.27% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
1.14% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 63.64% of McAfee VirusScan.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
31.46% |
|
| Sony |
17.98% |
|
| Acer |
15.73% |
|
| ASUS |
11.24% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
11.24% |
|
| Toshiba |
6.74% |
|
| Intel |
2.25% |
|
| Gateway |
2.25% |
|
| Alienware |
1.12% |
|
