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What is fsssvc.exe?

Part of Windows Live Family Safety Service by Microsoft

What is it?

Microsoft Family Safety (formerly Windows Live Family Safety), developed by Microsoft, is free parental monitoring and content-control software. Family Safety has a Windows Filtering Platform driver to filter web browsing.

Description of fsssvc.exe from Microsoft

“Microsoft announced that Windows Live Family Safety will be renamed to Microsoft Family Safety and will be built-in as part of its Windows 8 operating system. With Windows 8, you can monitor what your kids are doing, no matter where they use their PC. All you have to do is create a Windows user account for each child, check the box to turn on Family Safety, and then review weekly reports that describe your children’s PC use. No additional downloads, installation wizards, or configuration steps are required. ”

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How does fsssvc.exe run?

Service - fsssvc.exe runs as a background Windows service called 'fsssvc' (Windows Live Family Safety). This service runs as the SYSTEM account with extensive privileges on the local computer, and acts as the computer on the network. Windows Live Family Safety runs as a program that can be started by the Service Controller and that obeys the service control protocol. This type of service runs in a process by itself.

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About 0.2% of all Boost users have the fsssvc.exe process running.	Of the 0.2% of fsssvc.exe users, 25.0% have disabled it.

How resource intensive is fsssvc.exe?

Comparison based on the average resource utilization across all programs.

0.00001% CPU54.9%

Average CPU utilization across all programs is 0.00001%.

5.01 MB RAM23.3%

Average private memory utilization across all programs is 21.53 MB.

2 /min0.1%

Average I/O read and write operations for all programs is 2,253 per minute.

Typical file (disk image) location:

C:\Program Files\windows live\family safety\fsssvc.exe

Are there other versions of Windows Live Family Safety Ser...?

fsssvc.exe - version 16.4.3508.0205

fsssvc.exe - version 16.4.3505.0912

fsssvc.exe - version 16.4.3503.0728

fsssvc.exe - version 15.4.3555.0308

fsssvc.exe - version 15.4.3538.0513

fsssvc.exe - version 15.4.3502.0922

fsssvc.exe - version 14.0.8118.0427

fsssvc.exe - version 14.0.8093.0805

fsssvc.exe - version 14.0.8064.0206 (this)

What else is related?

msvcp60.dll (Microsoft (R) Visual C++ by Microsoft)

rstrui.exe (System Restore Application by Microsoft)

dismhost.exe (Dism Host Servicing Process by Microsoft)

bcmsqlstartupsvc.exe (Business Contact Manager for Microsoft Outlook 2010 by Microsoft)

msonsext.dll (Microsoft Office by Microsoft)

encwcbar.dll (Microsoft Encarta by Microsoft)

workfolderssvc.dll (Microsoft® Work Folders Service by Microsoft)

appreadiness.dll (AppReadiness by Microsoft)

ole32.dll (Microsoft OLE for Windows by Microsoft)

microsoft.biztalk.brmacontrols.dll (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)

ssoconfig.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)

webfarmservice.exe (Microsoft IIS Extensions by Microsoft)

tfsjobagent.exe (Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 by Microsoft)

tfsbuildservicehost.exe (Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2010 by Microsoft)

ruleengineupdateservice.exe (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)

entsso.exe (Microsoft® Enterprise Single Sign-On by Microsoft)

btsntsvc.exe (Microsoft (R) BizTalk (R) Server 2010 by Microsoft)

starter.exe (by Microsoft)

drmstor.dll (Microsoft® Windows Media Services by Microsoft)

themeui.dll (API de tema do Windows by Microsoft)

ntbackup.exe (Utilitário de cópia de segurança do Windows by Microsoft)

browseui.dll (Biblioteca da interface de utilizador do browser da shell by Microsoft)

What Windows OS versions does this run on?

Windows Vista (TM) Home Premium (6.0.6001.65536)

About Microsoft Corporation

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File details

File name: fsssvc.exe

Publisher: Microsoft Corporation

Name: Windows Live Family Safety Service

Description: Windows Live Family Safety Service

Version: 14.0.8064.0206

Original file name: fsssvc.exe

Digital certificate

Issued to: Microsoft Corporation

Certificate authority: Microsoft Corporation

Resource utilization

CPU utilization averages

Total CPU: 0.0000250578%

Privileged CPU: 0.0000195678%

User CPU: 0.00000548997313%

Privileged CPU time: 499.2 ms

Privileged CPU time /min: 0 ms

CPU cycle count: 1,380,832,826

CPU cycle count /min: 137,623

Memory utilization averages

Committed memory: 78.23 MB

Peak committed memory: 84.43 MB

Paged memory: 5.01 MB

Peak paged memory: 5.07 MB

Paged system memory: 138.73 KB

Non-paged system memory: 10.02 KB

Working set memory: 6.42 MB

Peak working set memory: 9.64 MB

Min working set memory: 6.42 MB

Private memory: 5.01 MB

Page faults: 12,311

Page faults /min: 1

Process I/O averages

Total read operations: 31

Read operations /min: 1

Total read transfer: 2.57 KB

Read transfer /min: 0 Bytes

Total write operations: 29

Write operations /min: 1

Total write transfer: 3.09 KB

Write transfer /min: 0 Bytes

Total other operations: 8,034

Other operations /min: 1

Total other transfer: 106.86 KB

Other Transfer /min: 5 Bytes

Resources

Handle count average: 323

Thread count average: 9

Thread resource averages

advapi32.dll

fsssvc.exe

ntdll.dll

Process details

Runs as (owner): System

Windows platform: 32-bit

Runs as a service: Yes

Parent Process

services.exe (Services and Controller app by Microsoft)

Process Command

"C:\Program Files\Windows Live\Family Safety\fsssvc.exe"

Service details

Name: Windows Live Family Safety

Service name: fsssvc

Service type: Win32OwnProcess

Description: “This service enables Family Safety on the computer. If this service is not running, Family Safety will not work.”

Image hashes

MD5: 9b1622ebeb31b3411b13382ffcb8737d

SHA-1: d5e01a0fb7c6d16b336a6cdbbaf6764acc81eb94

SHA-256: 528cbde1b92eb27b0fe7d7f5944a3828c26e51a27532bb434d66a3886aed3901

PE image details

Subsystem: Windows GUI

Langauge*: Microsoft Visual C++ 9.0

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