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mozybackup.exe
MozyHome by Decho Corp. (Signed)
| Version: | 1.8.2.0 |
| MD5: | 93d943c1aa9991cd2c2eeb93529ce1fd |
| SHA1: | 42930023372d8d6483992bb7e6f254d0eeb2fe98 |
| SHA256: | 475a7e535a24f48962913a4939506ce233328cccb6f0fb707656fac1ed1ddae7 |
Overview
mozybackup.exe runs as a service under the name MozyHome Backup Service (mozybackup) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). It is installed with a couple of know programs including MozyHome published by Mozy, Inc., MozyHome from Mozy, Inc. and MozyHome by Mozy, Inc.. The assembly utilizes the .NET run-time framework (which is required to be installed on the PC). The file is digitally signed by Decho Corp. which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA). This particular version is usually found on Windows 8 Pro (6.2.9200.0).
Details
| File name: | mozybackup.exe |
| Publisher: | Mozy, Inc. |
| Product name: | MozyHome |
| Description: | MozyHome Service bootstrapper |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\mozyhome\mozybackup.exe |
| File version: | 1.8.2.0 |
| Product version: | 2.13.0.0 |
| Size: | 53.39 KB (54,672 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Decho Corp. |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, October 16, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, October 16, 2014 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C# / Basic .NET |
| .NET CLR: | Yes |
| .NET NGENed: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
“MozyHome now has the best of both worlds with online backup and Mozy Stash file synchronization. Mozy is 100% automatic. You always have the most recent versions of your files in a safe online environment that you can access from anywhere. Backing up data on CDs or external hard drives can eat up a lot of time. You can only manage to do it every so often. And there’s still a chance that these storage devices can be lost, destroyed, or s...”
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'mozybackup' (MozyHome Backup Service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009908% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00006790% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003118% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 74,490 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 736,764/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 27.38 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 41.7 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.6 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 27.38 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 136.13 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 239.36 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.5 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 54.6 MB | |
| Page faults: | 283,558/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 283.66 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 105/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 40.3 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 29/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 44.33 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 88/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 6 | |
| Handles: | 285 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 12 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 12 | |
| GUI USER count: | 1 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 1 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command lines: |
- "C:\Program Files\mozyhome\mozybackup.exe"
- "C:\Program Files\mozyhome\mozybackup.exe" /wts 4960 660 664
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| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | mozybackup |
| Display name: | MozyHome Backup Service |
| Description: | “Backs up files to the MozyHome servers. Please DO NOT stop this service.” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent processes: |
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Threads
Averages
| MSVCR90.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00170911% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00086299% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00084612% | |
| CPU cycles: | 73,009/sec | |
| Memory: | 652 KB | |
| mozybackup.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00020105% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00011350% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00008755% | |
| CPU cycles: | 36,860/sec | |
| Memory: | 64 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009689% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009689% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,732/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.74 MB | |
| msvcrt.dll (Windows NT CRT DLL by Microsoft) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00009689% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009689% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| CPU cycles: | 483/sec | |
| Memory: | 660 KB | |
| backup.dll (MozyHome by Mozy) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00007999% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004756% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00003243% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,584/sec | |
| Memory: | 9.09 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 8 Pro |
100.00% |
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Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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