How To Remove runservice.exe

Speaking about runservice.exe, its an executable file and a software component of LicCtrl Service. This service is used as a process to manage and check the licenses of certain games as part of eLicense Copy Protection scheme. This all indicates that runservice.exe is technically not an essential part of Windows operating system, may sometimes cause the OS to throw issues as well. While being installed on Windows, it can be loacted within C:\Windows directory and its actual file sizes may vary depending upon Windows OS versions. Obviously, this kind of exe files have no visible Window and usually runs in background. So in case if you see the file is active and eating more than enough of system resources then it must be treated soon.

Although, runservice.exe can be sometimes a helpful part of a software, still some users can end up notice the process without having any associated application. In such instances, such applications can be trojans, or more precisely a coing miner which are mostly developed by cyber crime master minds to utilize system resources of targeted machine to mine digital currencies such as Monero, Bitcoin, Darkcoin, and so on. In such cases, the victims are expected to see unexpected increase in overall system resource usage by more than 70 percent.

Therefore, the high end usage of CPU or GPU on compromised computers will probably lead most of installed applications or games keep stammering or stuttering. This causes the system to crash or freeze frequently as well. Since the trojans like runservice.exe also configure some hidden settings in Windows, it can creat some loophole or backdoor on computer as well through which various sensitive information can be exfiltrated. To avoid such things, it’s recommended to remove runservice.exe from infected machine as soon as possible.

Threat Summary

Name: runservice.exe
Type: Trojan horse infection, spyware
Description: runservice.exe is another new trrojan or a coin miner that use to mine cryptocurrency by eating more than enough of system resources.
Distribution: Deceptive pop up ads, malicious links, freeware download channels, and many more
Removal: In order to identify and remove runservice.exe from compromised computers, we highly appreciate you to get through the article below.

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 runservice.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 runservice.exe and all detected threats

To delete runservice.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 runservice.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)