How To Remove Msascuil.exe

Msascuil.exe is technically an executable file or process that is a part of Windows operating system, most probably of Windows 10. On the OS, the file is saved within C:\Program Files\Windows Defender, directory. This indicates, the file is actually associated with an essential program under the OS, and it’s used for displaying Windows Defender icon in taskbaer. Although, the aforementioned exe file is described as essential, it can be a drastic element as well for many computer users if some spoofed variant is somehow installed. In this article, we have discussed how a spoofed Msascuil.exe can be hazardous to a computer and how it should be tackled on a compromised machine.

As mentioned above, Msascuil.exe is a legitimate process and you can trust it as well if notice its presence through Task Manager. But do make sure you are using Windows Defender on your machine. However in case if the process seems active even after you are not using the app, and even the process is eating more than enough of system resources, then probably the installed file would be malicious. To justify it, you can check the file’s location on your machine, and it must be differentiated than one mentioned above.

As per the researchers, such dubious file can be a vicious trojan or a coin miner application that may lead users to suffer performance based issues. This kind of infectious objects are often developed to mine digital currencies like Monero, Darkcoin, and many more,which turns the PC access terrible in no time. Even the users can experience data or identity related problems as well, which is always intolerable. In order to avoid such things to occur in your case, we highly recommend you to remove Msascuil.exe from infected machine as soon as possible.

Threat Summary

Name: Msascuil.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner, spyware
Dedscription: Msascuil.exe is discovered to be a suspicios file if it seems eating system resources and causing lags or issues.
Distribution: Malicious links or applications, freeware or shareware files, and many more.
Removal: In order to identify and remove Msascuil.exe from a compromised computers, we appreciate you to read through the guidelines mentioned.

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 Msascuil.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 Msascuil.exe and all detected threats

To delete Msascuil.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 Msascuil.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)