How To Remove Audiodriver.exe

Audiodriver.exe is found to be an executable file or a process which seems to be associated with Windows operating system or some of its installed software. If you notice this process is active on your machine and the file is associated with a reliable software, then you should not worry about. In most of the cases, when a related software is installed on computer, the file is placed within C:\\Windows directory or its sub directories. Means, if the location varies as mentioned, then probably the copy of files on your machine could be a trojan or more probably a coin miner or cryptominer.

This kind of vicious trojans are often created by cyber crime master minds with intention to mine crypto currency variants like Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin and so on. If you are not aware of term Mining processl, then you should know it’s a mathematical process in whcih arithmatic equations are solved, however this process needs a high end resource usage and even it costs a lot overall. This is why, the criminals use to distribute their miner applications over web to install on remote computers through illicit techniques.

A user mostly end up having traits like Audiodriver.exe installed on their machine while installing freeware or shareware applications, clicking some links or ads, visiting malicious websites, and many more. Once the trojan is inside, it runs its processes to modify a number of settings on computer to keep itself hidden or undetected for long time. And this further leads to run numerous internal processes in system background which eats more than 70 percent of computer resources, making the PC usage terrible. To sort out the issues caused by Audiodriver.exe, we suggest you to read through guidelines or methods as discussed under this article.

Threat Specifications

Name: Audiodriver.exe
Type: Trojan, crypto miner
Description: Audiodriver.exe is a trojan or a crypto miner that may turn your PC access terrible in no time and we highly suggest you to prevent your machine against such traits.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installer packages, malicious links or ads, malspam campaigns, and so on.
Removal: Get through the guidelines section under this article to identify and remove Audiodriver.exe out of your machine.

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 Audiodriver.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 Audiodriver.exe and all detected threats

To delete Audiodriver.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 Audiodriver.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)