a2service.exe
Emsisoft Anti-Malware by Emsisoft GmbH (Signed)
| Version: | 7.0.0.22 |
| MD5: | e773b6ad4182a01986db8bf0aee32a15 |
| SHA1: | 1a3d9e8d4e434ca6261dbbf5e4eab774c876f8b6 |
| SHA256: | ed4443df1682cd147ae74241acd23923d43608556dc89b15db48ded06611ad5a |
Overview
a2service.exe runs as a service under the name a2AntiMalware (a2AntiMalware) with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). It is installed with a couple of know programs including Emsisoft Anti-Malware published by Emsisoft GmbH, Emsisoft Anti-Malware from Emsisoft GmbH and Emsisoft Anti-Malware by Emsisoft GmbH. The file is digitally signed by Emsisoft GmbH which was issued by the DigiCert Inc certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | a2service.exe |
| Publisher: | Emsisoft GmbH |
| Product name: | Emsisoft Anti-Malware |
| Description: | Emsisoft Anti-Malware Service |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\emsisoft anti-malware\a2service.exe |
| File version: | 7.0.0.22 |
| Product version: | 7.0.0.0 |
| Size: | 2.51 MB (2,626,880 bytes) |
| Build date: | 5/28/2013 7:02 AM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Emsisoft GmbH |
| Authority (CA): | DigiCert Inc |
| Effective date: | Thursday, April 12, 2012 |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, June 16, 2015 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
Emsisoft Anti-Malware (formerly named a-squared Anti-Malware) is a antivirus and antispyware protection suite developed by Austria-based Emsisoft GmbH. The program makes use of three different security layers and has a dual-engine scanner (BitDefender and Emsisoft's own Anti-Malware scanner) with more than 13 million signatures. Behavior blocker which is developed inhouse since 2005 and is able to detect unknown zero-day attacks without...
Behaviors
Services
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- a2AntiMalware
- 'a2AntiMalware' (Emsisoft Anti-Malware 6.0 - Service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.01479300% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00482112% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00997188% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,500 ms/min | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 362.88 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 139.56 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 580 KB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 362.88 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 499.27 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 501.27 MB | |
| Working set: | 608 KB | |
| Working set (peak): | 157.26 MB | |
| Page faults: | 282,033/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 343.41 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 101/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 3 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 484 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 7/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 25 | |
| Handles: | 171 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 49 | |
| GUI USER count: | 31 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Undefined |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\emsisoft anti-malware\a2service.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | a2AntiMalware |
| Display name: | a2AntiMalware |
| Description: | “Scans the PC for unwanted software and provides protection from malicious code” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
40.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
30.00% |
|
| Windows 8 |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
10.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
10.00% |
|
Distribution by country
Slovakia installs about 40.00% of Emsisoft Anti-Malware.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
40.00% |
|
| Dell |
40.00% |
|
| GIGABYTE |
20.00% |
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