How To Remove Vlcplayer.exe

Vlcplayer.exe is discovered to be a malicious exeuctable file or application which can be rendered as a Trojan horse infection. More precisely, this exe file is a cryptominer application which utilizes a large quantity of system resources to mine digital money for its authors. Technically, the threat has affected over a considerable amount of users globally, and mostly it targets Windows OS versions like XP, Vista, Windows, 7 and so on. This cryptominer is developed by a group of cyber crime master minds with sole inteniton to target users and make illegal profit. Also, the threat is distributed mostly through questionable measures over web.

Once such threat somehow manage to assail on targeted computers, it use to modify internal configurations like system settings, desktop settings, browser settings, and many more without seeking any permission in prior. Even it can compromise or disable administrative tools or security applications which increases the overall risks. As a result, the malware manage to run its vicious processes in background to mine digital money such as Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin, etc by using resources like CPU or GPU throughout the day. This increment in usage of system resoruces often cause other legit applications to stutter while being used and throws frequent issues or error messages on screen.

Threfore, having a system infected by Vlcplayer.exe becomes to be completely useless as the resoruces often appear lacking to allow you accessing your preferred applications or games. Even taking advantage of such situations, more cyber criminals may manage to install keylogger or rootkit exploits to create bridge connection to your machine and steal sensitive details. This way, your privacy concerns will also be affected badly, and lead to serious consequences. To prevent such things, it’s mandatory to remove Vlcplayer.exe from system as the earliest.

Threat Summary

Name: Vlcplayer.exe
Type: Trojan, cryptominer
Description: Vlcplayer.exe is discovered as a vicious computer infection and probably a cryptominer that impacts the overall system performance drastically.
Distribution: Malicious links or ads, freeware or shareware installer packages, email attachments or links, and so on.
Removal: We suggest you checking through the guidelines under this article to identify and remove Vlcplayer.exe from compromised computers easily.

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 Vlcplayer.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 Vlcplayer.exe and all detected threats

To delete Vlcplayer.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 Vlcplayer.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)