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4.5.0218.0	4.51%
4.5.0218.0	1.56%
4.5.0216.0	4.51%
4.4.0304.0	2.69%
4.4.0304.0	0.52%
4.4.0304.0	0.26%
4.4.0304.0	0.09%
4.4.0207.0	0.09%
4.3.0219.0	3.90%
4.3.0219.0	2.60%
4.3.0216.0	1.30%
4.3.0216.0	0.95%
4.3.0215.0	2.17%
4.3.0215.0	5.72%
4.3.0215.0	0.78%
4.3.0215.0	1.04%
4.2.0223.0	13.27%
4.2.0223.0	10.15%
4.2.0223.0	1.04%
4.2.0223.0	10.93%
4.2.0216.0	0.09%
4.2.0216.0	0.26%
4.1.0522.0	12.32%
4.1.0522.0	12.06%
4.0.1526.0	0.09%
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4.0.1526.0	1.13%
3.0.8402.0	1.30%
3.0.8402.0	1.73%
3.0.8107.0	1.39%
3.0.8107.0	0.61%
2.0.6212.0	0.95%

Parent process

Related files

MsMpEng.exe is the back-end of Microsoft Security Essentials. It is important to remember that this process is actually used by both Windows Defender and MSE. When you install Microsoft Security Essentials, then Windows Defender is automatically turned off and Microsoft Security Essentials uses this process. This is the main process that runs the program and takes quite some system memory. If you end this process then Microsoft Security Essentials will be disabled and an alert will be shown aski

CPU
Total CPU:	0.00016157%	0.028634%
Kernel CPU:	0.00004816%	0.013761%
User CPU:	0.00011341%	0.014873%
Kernel CPU time:	265 ms/min	100,923,805ms/min
Memory
Private memory:	58.34 MB	21.59 MB
Private (maximum):	37.26 MB
Private (minimum):	37.15 MB
Non-paged memory:	58.34 MB	21.59 MB
Virtual memory:	188.83 MB	140.96 MB
Virtual memory (peak):	189.33 MB	169.69 MB
Working set:	37.24 MB	18.61 MB
Working set (peak):	78.19 MB	37.95 MB
Page faults:	39,030/min	2,039/min
Resource allocations
Threads:	12	12
Handles:	258	600

ntdll.dll
Total CPU:	0.00002769%	0.272967%
Kernel CPU:	0.00001136%	0.107585%
User CPU:	0.00001633%	0.165382%
CPU cycles:	1,335/sec	5,741,424/sec
Memory:	1.66 MB	1.16 MB
MsMpEng.exe (main module)
Total CPU:	0.00001134%
Kernel CPU:	0.00001134%
User CPU:	0.00000000%
CPU cycles:	169/sec
Memory:	28 KB