winampa.exe
Winamp Agent by Nullsoft Inc. (Signed)
Overview
winampa.exe has 17 known versions, the most recent one is 5.7.0.3444. winampa.exe is run as a standard windows process with the logged in user's account privileges. During installation, a run registry key for all users is added that will cause the program to run each time any user logs on to Windows. The average file size is about 73.23 KB. It is an authenticode code-signed executable issued to Nullsoft Inc. by the certification authority America Online Inc.. The programs Winamp, Winamp Essentials Pack and Winamp Playlist Sidecar have been observed as installing specific variations of winampa.exe. During the process's lifecycle, the typical CPU resource utilization is less than 0.01%, the average private memory consumption is about 1.33 MB with the maximum memory reaching around 3.08 MB and typical read I/O operations are around 11 Bytes per minute.
What is winampa.exe?
Winamp is a media player for Windows-based PCs and Android devices, written by Nullsoft, now a subsidiary of AOL. It is proprietary freeware/shareware, multi-format, extensible with plug-ins and skins, and is noted for its graphical sound visualization, playlist, and media library features.
About winampa.exe (from Nullsoft Inc.)
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 Details
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| File name: | winampa.exe |
| Publisher: | Nullsoft, Inc. |
| Product name: | Winamp Agent |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\winamp\winampa.exe |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Nullsoft Inc. |
| Authority (CA): | America Online Inc. |
Programs installed in
(Note, the programs listed below are for all versions of Winamp Agent.)
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Behaviors
(Note, the behaviors below are for all versions of winampa.exe, select a unique version for details.)
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'WinampAgent' → "C:\Program Files\Winamp\winampa.exe"
All file variations of winampa.exe
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
31.51% |
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| Windows 7 Home Premium |
19.18% |
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| Microsoft Windows XP |
12.33% |
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| Windows 7 Professional |
9.59% |
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| Windows 8 Pro |
4.11% |
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| Windows 7 Ultimate N |
4.11% |
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| Windows Developer Preview |
2.74% |
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| Windows 7 Home Basic |
2.74% |
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| Windows 8 |
2.74% |
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| Windows Vista Home Premium |
2.74% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise N |
1.37% |
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| Windows 8 Enterprise Evaluation |
1.37% |
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| Windows 7 Enterprise |
1.37% |
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| Windows 7 Starter |
1.37% |
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| Windows Vista Home Basic |
1.37% |
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| Windows 8 Single Language |
1.37% |
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Distribution by country
United States installs about 12.68% of Winamp Agent.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Hewlett-Packard |
20.75% |
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| Lenovo |
18.87% |
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| Acer |
16.98% |
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| Toshiba |
11.32% |
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| Dell |
11.32% |
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| ASUS |
7.55% |
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| GIGABYTE |
5.66% |
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| Intel |
3.77% |
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| Samsung |
1.89% |
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| American Megatrends |
1.89% |
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