How To Remove Taskhostw.exe

As per what the researchers have discovered about Taskhostw.exe, it’s a new form of malware that can be termed under ad-supported application which usually get installed without any prior notice. Upon being installed on computers, this kind of malware use to modify browser settings like homepage, new tab, and search engine defaults. As a result, whenever the browsing sessions are started, the victims keep facing frequent redirect issues, eruption of commercial pop-ups and so on. In addtion to be an adware, Taskhostw.exe is also found to be a trojan coin miner aplication that use a large volume of system resources to mine digital currency for its authors.

So, the overall impacts of Taskhostw.exe can be seen on compromised computers throughout the online or offline sessions. Being a trojan coin miner, the Taskhostw.exe can eat up more than 75 percent of system resources that leads most of the applications or games to keep stammering. This creates issues for users as they often fail to access their own machine for their own purpose. Each time they try to do so, the system either freezes or crashes to show BSOD or other scary error messages on screen. This way, the Taskhostw.exe turns the PC access to be terrible for users in no time.

Keeping these all apart, being an adware the Taskhostw.exe can also be drastic as it keeps a keen eye over all your personal details, inputs, search key preferneces, IP addresses, banking or social credentials, and so on. This way, it leads the victims to suffer high potential data loss in no time which can’t be fixed or resolved in easy. In order to prevent such things, it’s quite necessary to identify and remove Taskhostw.exe from infected machine as soon as possible. To learn about detection and removal techniques, refer to sections mentioned below.

Summarized Information

Name: Taskhostw.exe
Type: Adware, Trojan, coin miner
Description: Taskhostw.exe is all said to be a deceptive application that leads a computer to suffer just issues, making the PC access terrible in no time.
Distribution: Malicious links or advertisements, suspicious web sources, freeware download channels, and many more.
Removal: To learn about easy steps to identify and remove Taskhostw.exe from compromised computers, refer to guidelines section under this article.

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 Taskhostw.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 Taskhostw.exe and all detected threats

To delete Taskhostw.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 Taskhostw.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)