Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
| 3, 1, 5, 16 |
16.67% |
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| 3, 1, 0, 8 |
16.67% |
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| 3, 1, 0, 5 |
50.00% |
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| 3, 1, 0, 5 |
16.67% |
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wddmservice.exe
WDDriveManager.exe by Western Digital Technologies (Signed)
| Version: | 3, 1, 0, 5 |
| MD5: | 6209c98eaa7d003dbea3eb3245211342 |
| SHA1: | dbd1b983866d7412eb6d38ef5e261e022d1912c9 |
| SHA256: | 7ae1b6cbee5871bb58c3351dc4c772a2ba5aae26eb69fe4d8f74c473059a1956 |
Overview
wddmservice.exe runs as a service under the name WDDMService with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). This is typically installed with the program WD SmartWare published by Western Digital Technologies, Inc.. The file is digitally signed by Western Digital Technologies which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | wddmservice.exe |
| Publisher: | WDC |
| Product name: | WDDriveManager.exe |
| Description: | WD Drive Manager Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\western digital\wd smartware\wddmservice.exe |
| Original name: | WDDriveManager.exe |
| File version: | 3, 1, 0, 5 |
| Size: | 281.5 KB (288,256 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Western Digital Technologies |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Monday, October 11, 2010 |
| Expiration date: | Friday, September 20, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Western Digital Technologies, Inc. |
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Western Digital also ships WD Smartware with many of its drives for use as backup drives. This software backs up all Documents, Pictures, Movies, Emails, and more on the drive, and continually checks for changes to drive locations. This means that regular backup takes place.
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01049068% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00706387% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00342681% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,927 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,713,967/sec | |
| Context switches: | 20/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 3.23 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 6.93 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 6.88 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 3.23 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 39.11 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 42.06 MB | |
| Working set: | 6.92 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 7.86 MB | |
| Page faults: | 451,212/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 34.37 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1,656/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 14.31 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 178/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 179 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\western digital\wd smartware\wd drive manager\wddmservice.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | WDDMService |
| Description: | “WD SmartWare Drive Manager” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Threads
Averages
| sechost.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.02076767% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01441866% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00634901% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,524,086/sec | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory: | 288 KB | |
| WDDMService.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.00645646% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00278351% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00367295% | |
| CPU cycles: | 179,964/sec | |
| Memory: | 308 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00642676% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00321338% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00321338% | |
| CPU cycles: | 441,979/sec | |
| Context switches: | 10/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.74 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 8 Pro |
50.00% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
16.67% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
16.67% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
16.67% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 66.67% of WDDriveManager.exe.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
100.00% |
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