How To Remove Windowsupdate.exe

Windowsupdate.exe is technically said to be a trojan or more precisely a crypto currency miner that use to mine digital money like Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin, and so on, but using computer’s resources like CPU or GPU. Cryptominers, this way becomes a hazard for computer users by eating up more than enough of system resources to do malicious tasks, and all such impacts can be seen on computer easily. Trying out to accomplish any task on compromised computers may fail with vicious error messages due to lack of system resources, which also results in unwanted shutdown or system crashes.

Technically, cryptominer like applications are created by cyber crime master minds with sole intention to generate a large volume of profit, however the victims just face off troubles. Most of such applications are distributed in bundled or embedded form with various free downloadable stuffs, malicious links or ads, and even through malspam campaigns. A user often get tricked by such employed techniques and end up to believe such traits can be helpful. However, such vicious traits simply leads them to suffer high potential loss without any prior notice.

Trojans like Windowsupdate.exe are not just limited to bring issues in form of affecting your overall system performance and speed, but also can be terrible for more other system related prospects. It can maximize the present vulnerabilities to allow hackers taking benefits of those. Through this way, system hardware and other components can also be captured, and your personal sensitive information can be stolen, misused, and may sold in dark web internet market as well. To prevent such things to happen, it’s recommended to remove Windowsupdate.exe from computers as soon as possible.

Threat Specifications

Name: Windowsupdate.exe
Type: Cryptominer, trojan, spyware
Description: Windowsupdate.exe is discovered as a vicious computer infection that eats up your system resources to mine digital currencies.
Distribution: Malicious links or ads, malspam campaigns, freeware or shareware installers, and many more.
Removal: Check through guidelines under this article to remove Windowsupdate.exe from compromised system.

As mentioned earlier, cyber-criminals have expertise to use some of the services offered by Windows System process as vulnerabilities. They usually mimic a legitimate system process with name of the Trojan or malware. They create the process of a Trojan same as some legitimate system process. In some cases, they easily get differentiated from legit processes however; some cases can be extremely difficult to distinguish.

If you examine the Windows process category in the Task Manager, you would easily notice the legitimate system process. However, if you notice duplicate files process, one must be a malware. This type of Trojan or malware continuously mines bitcoin or other crypto-currencies and this is a very high resource extensive process. The overall speed and performance of the PC gets extremely slow and sluggish. For depth enquiry, you can right click on the doubtful process and choose file location option in order to see the associated program. As a simple rule, if the file is stored in Windows/System32 folder, it is legitimate.

On the other hand, if the process is stored in the user’s processes or “Open the file” for the process leads to any random directories then it is doubtful. You should immediately scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool. Remember that manual removal of harmful process related to Trojan or suspicious files are very difficult due to its deep intrusion and integration with the OS.

How to Remove Windowsupdate.exe

The first thing that you should do is to scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool and that will be very helpful. On the other hand, if you have backup of your important data in any external clean location such as hard-drive or pen-drive etc. then formatting the infected hard-drive of the PC may also work for you. Remember that formatting the hard-drive may work for one PC but if the infected PC is connected with a network of PCs then this step will go in vain.

Click on the “Download” button to use “SpyHunter” anti-malware tool to clean your workstation.

 

• On click on the download button, the file named as “Spyhunter-Intaller.exe” gets downloaded.

• In the downloads dialog box, choose “SpyHunter Installer.exe” and open the file.

• Select “Yes” in the “User Account Control” dialog box.

• Select the language you prefer and press on “OK” to get next step

• In order to process the installation, press on “Continue”

• Accept the privacy policy and end user agreement.

• Open “SpyHunter” by locating its icon on the desktop or search it on Windows “Start” menu.

The next step is to use “SpyHunter” for PC scanning and malware removal.

• Go to the “Home tab” and press on “Start Scan” button

Wait for the few minutes to scan gets completed. On completion, it scan result report is presented on the screen.

⇒ Register for the Spyhunter and remove Windowsupdate.exe and all detected threats

To delete Windowsupdate.exe and all associated threats found through the system scan, you need to register for the SpyHunter:

• Click on the register button available on the top-right corner of the program window,and then click on buy button.
• You will automatically be redirected to the purchasing page, enter your customer detail and valid email address,
• After the successful payment, you will receive email confirmation message. The email contains the account information such as usernames and passwords and so on,
• Thereafter, enter the same detail in the Account tab of the settings section of the program. Now, you can avail full features and protection to your system.

⇒ Steps to remove Windowsupdate.exe and other detected threats:

Spyhunter antivirus tool categorizes the type of objects detected during system scans in total five sections – “Malware“, “PUPs” (Potentially Unwanted Programs), “Privacy“, “Vulnerabilities“, and “Whitelisted objects“

Select the object you want to remove and then click on Next button (you can quarantine an object so that you can anytime restore it to the system using restore feature)