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StartManSvc.exe
StartMan Application by PC Tools (Signed)
| Version: | 2, 0, 0, 5 |
| MD5: | f85b41f5968b3ca8001e91de48ca0740 |
| SHA1: | 9e441dbfd31992718ef5768692889d0128ea8206 |
| SHA256: | 46d0ced4f6d7f5878fac131a818a7800e8dc058f0c687056ae4e7a0ee04ad42a |
What is StartManSvc.exe?
PC Tools Security which offers protection from online threats, is regularly updated, and even includes some useful extras like Web site ratings, phishing alerts, and spyware, adware and malware protection.
About StartManSvc.exe (from PC Tools)
“PC Tools Security is a full antivirus and antispyware package designed to protect from known viruses, worms, Trojans and other threats while defending against spyware, adware, bots, keyloggers and oth”
Details
| File name: | StartManSvc.exe |
| Publisher: | PC Tools |
| Product name: | StartMan Application |
| Typical file path: | C:\Program Files\common files\pc tools\smonitor\startmansvc.exe |
| File version: | 2, 0, 0, 5 |
| Size: | 617.97 KB (632,800 bytes) |
| Certificate |
| Issued to: | PC Tools |
| Authority (CA): | VeriSign |
| Effective date: | Thursday, July 9, 2009 |
| Expiration date: | Wednesday, August 15, 2012 |
| Digital DNA |
| Entropy: | 6.579754 |
| File packed: | No |
| .NET CLR: | No |
More details
Behaviors
Service
Runs under 'SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services' by the Service Controller (services.exe)
- 'PCToolsSSDMonitorSvc' (PC Tools Startup and Shutdown Monitor service)
Resource utilization
(Note: statistics below are averages based on a minimum sample size of 200 unique participants)
Averages
| CPU |
| Total CPU: | 0.00003952% | |
| Kernel CPU: | 0.00001441% | |
| User CPU: | 0.00002511% | |
| Kernel CPU time: | 2,941 ms/min | |
| CPU cycles: | 23,439/sec | |
| Memory |
| Private memory: | 2.86 MB | |
| Private (maximum): | 5.33 MB | |
| Private (minimum): | 5.33 MB | |
| Non-paged memory: | 2.86 MB | |
| Virtual memory: | 54.55 MB | |
| Virtual memory (peak): | 71.26 MB | |
| Working set: | 5.35 MB | |
| Working set (peak): | 9.04 MB | |
| Page faults: | 6,040/min | |
| I/O |
| I/O read transfer: | 4.06 KB/sec | |
| I/O read operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O write transfer: | 2 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O write operations: | 1/sec | |
| I/O other transfer: | 0 Bytes/sec | |
| I/O other operations: | 1/sec | |
| Resource allocations |
| Threads: | 5 | |
| Handles: | 167 | |
Process properties
| Platform: | 32-bit |
| Command line: | "C:\Program Files\common files\pc tools\smonitor\startmansvc.exe" |
| Owner: | SYSTEM |
| Windows Service |
| Service name: | SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\PCToolsSSDMonitorSvc |
| Display name: | PC Tools Startup and Shutdown Monitor service |
| Parent process: | services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft) |
Distribution by Windows OS
| OS version | distribution |
| Windows 7 Ultimate |
100.00% |
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