How To Remove Wao.exe

Did you just notice a process called Wao.exe is active through taks manager in Windows and eating more than enough of system resources? Are you unable to access preinstalled applications or games on computer? Is your system often crashes or freezes frequently to show BSOD or other scary error messages? Well, in case if your answer is yes, then your system is technically infected by a trojan and more probably infected with a cryptominer. Yes, Wao.exe is just a digital currency miner, created by cyber crime master minds in face of a helpful looking exe file. However, it should be terminated once identified. To know more about Wao.exe and its removal, keep reading this article.

As per what the researchers have to say, Wao.exe is a new perilous computer infection which can be classified as a trojan. Mostly, it assails on random computers without user’s permission. And is carried through a number of possible measures like torrent based downloads, freeware or shareware installer packages, peer to peer based downloads, infected media drives, and so on. Means, a user may end up to download and install vicious stuffs like Wao.exe on their machine anytime if they visit or interact with malicious online traits. Even dealing with spam email atachments can be a culprit to bring malware traits on targeted computers.

Once the malware is somehow installed, it can start a lot of modifications in computer settings like registry, security, firewall, and so on. Doing so, it manage to bypass all security checks on computer and runs its processes in background. So, it leads to lack of system resources for other genuine applications or games causing the system to crash or freeze frequently. Even the malware may create some loophole or backdoor on computer to allow hackers to steal your personal or sensitive details. To prevent such things, it’s necessary to remove Wao.exe soon.

Technical Summary

Name: Wao.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner, spyware
Description: Wao.exe is a new vicious trojan that comes with various abilities to bring chaos on compromised computer in form of drastic PC performance, risks to data and identity, and so on.
Distribution: Malspam campaigns, third party installer setups, malicious links or ads, and many more.
Removal: In order to remove Wao.exe from compromised computers, we suggest you to check and follow guidelines mentioned 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 Wao.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 Wao.exe and all detected threats

To delete Wao.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 Wao.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)