Agent.exe
Battle.net Update Agent by Blizzard Entertainment (Signed)
| Version: | 1.8.2.2110 |
| MD5: | 77b415fd0b0e09db7bd3545c6d72288f |
| SHA1: | b8f6cf1d52f04ad8d48613fff911f0cc8176a5e1 |
What is Agent.exe?
Battle.net Update Agent is a program which runs in the background of Windows and automatically starts up when your PC boots. It checks for software udpates and automatically downloads and installs them if found.
Overview
agent.exe executes as a process with the local user's privileges. It has been configured with a firewall exception which allows both inbound and outbound network communication without being blocked. The file is digitally signed by Blizzard Entertainment which was issued by the Thawte certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | agent.exe |
| Publisher: | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Product name: | Battle.net Update Agent |
| Typical file path: | C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application data\battle.net\agent\agent.1267\agent.exe |
| File version: | 1.8.2.2110 |
| Size: | 5.96 MB (6,245,424 bytes) |
| Build date: | 8/15/2013 6:43 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Blizzard Entertainment |
| Authority (CA): | Thawte |
| Effective date: | Friday, September 30, 2011 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, December 5, 2013 |
| Digital DNA |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Windows firewall allowed programs
Exceptions allow programs to access to the Internet through an outbound connections
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1040\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1737\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1675\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1675\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1544\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1363\Agent.exe'
- Firewall exception for 'C:\Documents and Settings\user\Application Data\Battle.net\Agent\Agent.1267\Agent.exe'
Network connections
Access through an approved Windows firewall exception
[UDP] listens on port 53882
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00005974% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00004233% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00001741% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,341,936 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 15,767,309/sec | |
| Context switches: | 31/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 15.17 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 24.56 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 17.39 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 15.17 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 136.5 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 171.03 MB | |
| Working set: | 24.49 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 24.76 MB | |
| Page faults: | 57,782,260/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 4.51 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 10/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 11.5 KB/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 6/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 581.48 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 25,224/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 25 | |
| Handles: | 598 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 9 | |
| GUI GDI peak: | 11 | |
| GUI USER count: | 3 | |
| GUI USER peak: | 5 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | Medium |
| Platform: | 64-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\ProgramData\battle.net\agent\agent.beta.2110\agent.exe" --locale=enus |
| Owner: | User |
Threads
Averages
| Agent.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.03259591% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.03032350% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00227241% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,271,862/sec | |
| Context switches: | 3/sec | |
| Memory: | 6.05 MB | |
| wow64.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003810% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001270% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002540% | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,898/sec | |
| Memory: | 252 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00000423% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00000000% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000423% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,830/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.66 MB | |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Microsoft Windows XP |
58.82% |
|
| Windows 8 |
23.53% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
17.65% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 23.53% of Battle.net Update Agent.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Sony |
44.44% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
33.33% |
|
| Toshiba |
22.22% |
|
