MSASCUI.exe
Windows Defender by Microsoft Corporation (Signed)
| Version: | 1.1.1600.0 |
| MD5: | 0d392ede3b97e0b3131b2f63ef1db94e |
| SHA1: | e92253719e1b71920add22992d32c9f02705dfdc |
| SHA256: | 3eda280f91097293e00bf984d377e1111cfde1fc81b30a3fdeb38f321ef82bb6 |
What is MSASCUI.exe?
MSASCui.exe is the Windows Defender User Interface, the main UI for Windows Defender.
About MSASCUI.exe (from Microsoft Corporation)
“Windows Defender is a free program that helps you stay productive by protecting your computer against pop-ups, slow performance and security threats caused by spyware and other potentially unwanted so”
Details
| File name: | MSASCui.exe |
| Publisher: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Product name: | Windows Defender |
| Description: | Windows Defender User Interface |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\windows defender\msascui.exe |
| File version: | 1.1.1600.0 |
| Size: | 984.55 KB (1,008,184 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | Microsoft Corporation |
| Authority (CA): | Microsoft Corporation |
| Effective date: | Tuesday, April 4, 2006 |
| Expiration date: | Thursday, October 4, 2007 |
| Digital DNA |
| PE subsystem: | Windows GUI |
| Entropy: | 6.322427 |
| File packed: | No |
| Code language: | Microsoft Visual C++ 8.0 |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Programs
The following program will install this file
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Behaviors
Startup files (all users) run
Runs under the registry key 'HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run'
- 'Windows Defender User Interface' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
- 'Windows Defender' → "C:\Program Files\Windows Defender\MSASCui.exe" -hide
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00382223% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00213949% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00168274% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 1,514,257 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 2,341,627/sec | |
| Context switches: | 1/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 7.47 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 9.17 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 4.71 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 7.47 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 97.59 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 101.66 MB | |
| Working set: | 7.03 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 10.45 MB | |
| Page faults: | 13,643/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 570 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 80 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 2/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 1.37 KB/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 50/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 11 | |
| Handles: | 369 | |
| GUI GDI count: | 136 | |
| GUI USER count: | 129 | |
Process properties
Threads
Averages
| MSASCui.exe (main module) |
| Total CPU: | 0.05341529% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.01319941% | |
| User CPU: | 0.04021589% | |
| CPU cycles: | 1,324,808/sec | |
| Context switches: | 6/sec | |
| Memory: | 996 KB | |
| ntdll.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.01101187% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00294149% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00807038% | |
| CPU cycles: | 256,790/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.16 MB | |
| MpClient.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00720575% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00306660% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00413915% | |
| CPU cycles: | 159,793/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 308 KB | |
| RPCRT4.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00264992% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00163915% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00101077% | |
| CPU cycles: | 66,711/sec | |
| Context switches: | 2/sec | |
| Memory: | 780 KB | |
| gdiplus.dll |
| Total CPU: | 0.00013668% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00009476% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00004192% | |
| CPU cycles: | 500/sec | |
| Memory: | 1.67 MB | |
| MpRtMon.DLL |
| Total CPU: | 0.00002388% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00002325% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00000063% | |
| CPU cycles: | 471/sec | |
| Memory: | 668 KB | |
Common loaded modules
These are modules that are typiclaly loaded within the context of this process.
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows Vista Home Premium |
46.50% |
|
| Windows Vista Home Basic |
16.56% |
|
| Windows Vista Ultimate |
10.83% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP |
9.55% |
|
| Windows Vista Business |
6.37% |
|
| Windows XP Home Edition |
5.73% |
|
| Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition |
1.27% |
|
| Windows XP Professional |
1.27% |
|
| Windows 7 Home Premium |
1.27% |
|
| Windows 8.1 Pro with Media Center |
0.64% |
|
Distribution by country
United States installs about 57.66% of Windows Defender.
Distribution by PC manufacturer
| PC Manufacturer | distribution |
| Dell |
37.50% |
|
| Hewlett-Packard |
13.54% |
|
| Toshiba |
12.50% |
|
| ASUS |
10.42% |
|
| Intel |
6.25% |
|
| Acer |
5.21% |
|
| American Megatrends |
4.17% |
|
| Gateway |
4.17% |
|
| Sony |
4.17% |
|
| Lenovo |
2.08% |
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