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Tip from the PitCrew

Every process running on your computer takes up CPU cycles and valuable memory. For optimal PC performance and resource utilization, you should be aware of every process on your computer. PC Pitstop designed this process library to help you know which processes are worthwhile and others that slow system performance.

Furthermore, perhaps the quickest and most straight forward method to detect malware is through a running process analysis.

Process Library

  

openvpnas.exe (Hotspot Shield Service)

Percentage of recently scanned PC's with this process running: 0.06%
Average CPU use for this program: 0%
Average RAM for this program: 3 MB


PC Pitstop Analysis

HijackThis:

O23 - Service: Hotspot Shield Service (HotspotShieldService) - Unknown owner - C:\Program Files\Hotspot Shield\bin\openvpnas.exe

Hotspot Shield installs a Service in each of your Network Card. According to Hotspot Shield:

Hotspot Shield creates a virtual private network (VPN) between your laptop or iPhone and our Internet gateway.


Recommendation

Win Patrol

openvpnas.exe is required by third-party software or hardware and should not disabled.

PC Pitstop recommends WinPatrol Plus for monitoring all of the background activity on your PC. WinPatrol Plus provides a easy to understand descriptions of over 15,000 processes and programs.



Identification

In addition to the file name, openvpnas.exe, the following version information is used to identify the file. If the file does not match this information, it may be a different file. To ensure the file is absolutely correct, run a free and comprehensive scan.

File name contains:\Hotspot Shield\bin\

To view version information with Windows Explorer, right-click the file and click Properties, Version.


MD5 Hashes

MD5 hashes is the way that computers can define the uniqueness of a file. Anti malware vendors frequently use this technique to detect and clean malware. It is common for a program to have multiple MD5 hashes as the developers create newer versions of the program. For the program called openvpnas.exe, we have detected more than 20 different MD5 hashes. Click on a hash to research the hash in Google.
MD5 Report Summary
Program NameMD5 Count
openvpnas.exe> 20
#MD5Size
10x34344f65cbdf7b3f212191808be19c5549664 bytes
20xb8e05ffbbf0394f2e979f3b84b8406ae88024 bytes
30x4eb0f3ecfa6ebf6949399a1677ed571184440 bytes
40x43b70dcf77f7f14911c4d1d289cdea6488024 bytes
50x7b987782b622e36bd50d8a0fbf47a50d84440 bytes
60x017b52bad7469cddab637df1557938ee88040 bytes
70x0b8c0069a9e669e5ef38155a5def5b1d88024 bytes
80x40ea7e290b8b8c6d5e2a6155dc7849c449664 bytes
90x6fd5d32d36a8a2f370ad9841dbdcac7d50176 bytes
100x7bc4aafe84c53f44b8a2a3803c3d247768056 bytes
110xd107e8aeb2ece0df27d764dc29ff3d9d1383208 bytes
120x6e7d72bf76be9edafb6a4f87c097664088040 bytes
130x76128d567b860896eb6661056628c11988624 bytes
140x2286cf25ace34e76e61bfb6a0c65ce68165848 bytes
150x8f371cfbcbefc139248b4facbe895cec94256 bytes
160xbc3e3d32b67cb46d906d7c48916aacc894256 bytes
170xb81bd1817f0d4979fc898e2b4da68500167984 bytes
180x6629838c1f83d2e3c55b3a97e81f652f130608 bytes
190x42482b1a4ba82feb007305965db05133131632 bytes
200x32aa743592d9475666c9179b4334ae16131632 bytes

PC Pitstop Database Comparisons

Every week, we update our information about the running programs identified during the previous week's testing. openvpnas.exe (Hotspot Shield Service) has been seen on 0.06% of systems tested at PC Pitstop. As a point of comparison, it is rare for a particular malicious program (virus or spyware) to be seen on more than one or two percent of all systems tested. The average RAM memory usage for this process was 3 MB. The average CPU load for this program was 0%.


Vendor or Distributor's Web Site

http://hotspotshield.com/

Important note: A file name alone may not be enough for positive identification. PC Pitstop's Overdrive tests and spyware scan use information such as the company name, product name, or install directory. If you are unable to identify a file, ask about it in our forums after running our full tests.