16 October 2007
aolacsd.exe
aolacsd.exe, known as AOL Access Daemon, belongs to the AOL Internet Software (America Online Inc) and relates to the connection driver, essential to Internet connection. It is a utility that will attempt to reconnect your computer to the internet should it be disconnected for some reason. It’s located in a subfolder of “C:\Program Files\Common Files” (typically c:\program files\common files\aol\acs\). Known file sizes on Windows XP are 1135728 bytes (31% of all occurrence), 10328 bytes, 1140312 bytes, 46640 bytes, 46680 bytes, 1123440 bytes, 1139824 bytes, 1126400 bytes.
This is a non-essential system process, but should not be terminated unless suspected to be causing problems.
However, any malware can be named anything and you should check whether the file name has not been altered in any way.
aolacsd.exe file description at file.net
aolacsd.exe process information
aolacsd.exe at liutilities.com
aolacsd.exe at what-is-exe.com