Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
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adawarebp.exe
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection by Lavasoft Limited (Signed)
| Version: | 1, 0, 1, 31 |
| MD5: | c5f1d82d9cc8979971cc748fcb2ee7ca |
| SHA1: | 3e5fb03e75d7f3f9450b16cde2b846d7a1f018ba |
| SHA256: | 7580ff135c12aae5be110a9949a842cfa4413c7e68186e81c8ff290e1c0ee26a |
What is adawarebp.exe?
Ad-Aware Browsing Protection is part of Ad-Aware, an anti-spyware and anti-virus program developed by Lavasoft that detects and removes malware, spyware and adware on a user's computer. According to Lavasoft, Ad-Aware detects spyware, computer viruses, dialers, Trojans, bots, rootkits, data miners, aggressive advertising, parasites, browser hijackers, and tracking components.
About adawarebp.exe (from Lavasoft Limited)
“Built upon our legendary anti-spyware and antivirus protection, Ad-Aware real-time web-filtering technology safeguards your PC against phishing attacks and online scams, allowing you to stay protected”
Details
| File name: | adawarebp.exe |
| Publisher: | Lavasoft |
| Product name: | Ad-Aware Browsing Protection |
| Typical file path: | C:\ProgramData\ad-aware browsing protection\adawarebp.exe |
| File version: | 1, 0, 1, 31 |
| Product version: | 1.0 |
| Size: | 193.39 KB (198,032 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Lavasoft Limited |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following programs will install this file
The Ad-Aware Browsing Protection add-in changes the default search and home page URLs of the user's web browsers. Installs a Visicom toolbar in your Web browser that collects and stores information about your web browsing habits and sends this information to Visicom via applicationstat.com so they can suggest services or provide ads via the toolbar. Ad-Aware Browsing Protection will also modify the web browser settings for DNS error pag...
Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Ad-Aware Browsing Protection' → "C:\ProgramData\Ad-Aware Browsing Protection\adawarebp.exe"
Network connections
[TCP] 50.57.204.250:80
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00947129% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00610300% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00336828% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,925 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 3,640,475/sec | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 6.59 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 11.84 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 10.49 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 6.59 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 115.15 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 127.73 MB | |
| Working set: | 11.75 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 37.21 MB | |
| Page faults: | 144,742/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 928.76 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 76/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 8.37 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 8.17 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 760/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 4 | |
| Handles: | 248 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 9 | |
| GUI USER count: | 2 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 2 | |
Process properties
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
50.00% |
|
| Windows 7 Professional |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Ad-Aware Browsing Protection.
