How To Remove Windowscontroller.exe

Is your system started to show frequent hassle while being accessed? Have you noticed a process called Windowscontroller.exe that seem problematic one and eating more than enough of system resources? Are you looking for some easy measures to overcome such issues? Well, in case you answer these interrogations as yes, then probably your system is infected by a vicious malware trait that needs to be resolved soon. In this article, we have included detailed information and some recommended guidelines that can easily help you overcome the issues completely.

Windowscontroller.exe is technically identified to be one of the nasty computer infection which can be classified as a Trojan horse, and more precisely a cryptominer. So, obviously the malware is highly precarious and got technically expretise in exploiting victimized computers. The security researchers have to say that this particular threat mostly get inside computers through deceptive marketing techniques utilized by cyber crime master minds. Some of such methods include software bundling, email scooping, social engineering tricks, infected media drives, and many more. In other cases, it can also be transferred through malicious websites or P2P file sharing networks.

Once the trojan manage to infiltrate on targeted computers somehow, it will install itself by taking over various internal settings on computer including administrative settings, browser settings, registry settings, startup files, and many more. Doing these internal modifications, the malware manage to run itself automatically after every system reboot, and keeps sucking computer’s overall performance, therefore, each time the system or its applications is attempted to be accessed, it throws scary issues like system crashes, freezing issues, and more. Even the long term presence can lead victims to suffer high potential data loss. So, the Windowscontroller.exe should be removed soon after being identified.

Threat Summary

Name: Windowscontroller.exe
Type: Trojan, cryptominer
Description: Windowscontroller.exe is a vicious cryptominer used by criminals to steal sensitive information or mine digital currencies.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installers, malicious links or ads, and many more.
Removal: Check through guidelines under this article to identify and remove Windowscontroller.exe from compromised computers.

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 Windowscontroller.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 Windowscontroller.exe and all detected threats

To delete Windowscontroller.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 Windowscontroller.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)