Should I block it?
No, this file is 100% safe to run.
Additional versions
Relationships
Parent process
Related files
HostStorageService.exe
Broadcom CV Host Component 1.0 by Broadcom Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.6.323.28 |
| MD5: | 879f8314bbf09738630ed1af6bb1fc00 |
| SHA1: | 4844a38d8ab86d4315ca9787df3aa3d3b9dab276 |
| SHA256: | 2757c09e327182dae0894bd71f7b1f0e240ce77acd260a37ca78492f3313995f |
Overview
hoststorageservice.exe runs as a service under the name Credential Vault Host Storage with extensive SYSTEM privileges (full administrator access). The file is digitally signed by Broadcom Corporation which was issued by the VeriSign certificate authority (CA).
Details
| File name: | hoststorageservice.exe |
| Publisher: | Broadcom Corporation |
| Product name: | Broadcom CV Host Component 1.0 |
| Description: | Host Storage Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\broadcom corporation\broadcom ush host components\cv\bin\hoststorageservice.exe |
| File version: | 1.6.323.28 |
| Size: | 26.35 KB (26,984 bytes) |
| Build date: | 6/24/2009 4:02 PM |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Broadcom Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Sunday, March 26, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Tuesday, April 21, 2009 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows Console |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'Credential Vault Host Storage'
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002235% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002235% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 47 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 946/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 1.93 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 3.13 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 2.86 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 1.93 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 32.84 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 33.8 MB | |
| Working set: | 2.86 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 3.13 MB | |
| Page faults: | 809/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 2 | |
| Handles: | 54 | |
Process properties
| Integrety level: | System |
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\broadcom corporation\broadcom ush host components\cv\bin\hoststorageservice.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | Credential Vault Host Storage |
| Description: | “Host Storage Service for Persisting CV Objects into Hard drive” |
| Type: | Win32OwnProcess |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Business |
50.00% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
50.00% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 100.00% of Broadcom CV Host Component 1.0.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
100.00% |
|
