msnmsgr.exe
Windows Live Messenger by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 15.4.3502.0922 |
| MD5: | 4655580a16674eb18d38394fb276e26b |
| SHA1: | 47a5fd827b3e681c86c398ccc3fea1bbd9048c47 |
| SHA256: | 99526773a737415b22b21568ee553e1cb5da4fb2c63450fd932949988468800d |
What is msnmsgr.exe?
Windows Live Messenger (formerly named MSN Messenger) is an instant messaging client. Windows Live Messenger uses the Microsoft Notification Protocol (MSNP) over TCP (and optionally over HTTP to deal with proxies) to connect to Microsoft Messenger service
Overview
msnmsgr.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges usually within the context of Windows Explorer. It is set to be run when the PC boots and the user logs into Windows (added to the Run registry key for the current user). It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. It is installed with a couple of know programs including Windows Live Essentials published by Microsoft Corporation, Windows Live from Microsoft Corporation and Windows Live by Microsoft Corporation.
Details
| File name: | msnmsgr.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Live Messenger |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows live\messenger\msnmsgr.exe |
| File version: | 15.4.3502.0922 |
| Size: | 4.04 MB (4,240,760 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Expiration date: | Monday, March 7, 2011 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Windows Live Essentials is a suite of freeware applications by Microsoft that aims to offer integrated and bundled e-mail, instant messaging, photo-sharing, blog publishing, and security services. Essentials programs are designed to integrate well with each other, with Microsoft Windows, and with other Microsoft web-based services such as SkyDrive and Outlook.com, so that they operate as a seamless whole.
Windows Live "is a way to extend the Windows user experience". Windows Vista provides a link in its user interface to download Windows Live Messenger, and Windows 7 saw the removal of applications such as Windows Mail, Windows Photo Gallery and Windows Movie Maker and replaced with the Windows Essentials suite, a software package that allows the downloading and installation of similar offerings from Windows Live. Windows Live offers int...
“Windows Live is the former collective brand name for a set of services and software products from Microsoft; part of their software plus services platform. A majority of these services are Web applications, accessible from a browser, but there are also client-side binary applications that require installation. There are three ways in which Windows Live services are offered: Windows Essentials applications, web services, and mobile servi...”
Behaviors
Startup files (user) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'msnmsgr' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe" /background
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Programas\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Messenger\msnmsgr.exe'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00843710% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00556710% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00287000% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 484 ms/min | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 33.82 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 25.1 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 15.85 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 33.82 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 171.29 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 172.4 MB | |
| Working set: | 16.63 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 25.95 MB | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 21 | |
| Handles: | 516 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 43 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 54 | |
| GUI USER count: | 70 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 71 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| msnmsgr.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00502649% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00412890% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00089759% | |
| CPU cycles: | 149,141/sec | |
| Memory: | 4.06 MB | |
| wlidux.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00216193% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00090081% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00126113% | |
| CPU cycles: | 63,407/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.7 MB | |
| MSVCR90.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00035987% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00026990% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00008997% | |
| CPU cycles: | 18,450/sec | |
| Memory: | 652 KB | |
| UXCore.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00035939% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00035939% | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,765/sec | |
| Memory: | 2.39 MB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
49.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
18.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
14.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
3.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
3.00% |
|
| Windows 8.1 |
1.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Starter |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 8 |
1.50% |
|
| Windows 7 Enterprise |
1.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Basic |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Seven Black Edition |
1.00% |
|
| Windows Vista™ Home Premium |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Enterprise |
0.50% |
|
| Windows 8 Pro with Media Center |
0.50% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 24.87% of Windows Live Messenger.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
14.84% |
|
| Dell |
12.50% |
|
| ASUS |
10.94% |
|
| Acer |
10.16% |
|
| Gateway |
9.38% |
|
| Toshiba |
7.81% |
|
| American Megatrends |
7.81% |
|
| Sony |
7.81% |
|
| Intel |
6.25% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
4.69% |
|
| Samsung |
3.13% |
|
| Lenovo |
1.56% |
|
| MSI |
1.56% |
|
| Sahara |
1.56% |
|
