How To Remove Wup.exe

Wup.exe is although an executable file that is necessary for some specific software, however this legitimate name can also be used by hackers to disguise trojans or cryptocurrency miner applications. It’s one of the fake executable file that is considered as a threat for computer. If its file location is noticed as different from the original which usually lies in Windows root installation directory, then it might be a trojan. This kind of dubious object usually get installed on computers while installing third party installer setups. Such apps disclose no additional identities hidden within them, and installs trojan in face of Wup.exe without any prior notice.

On a computer that’s infected by Wup.exe, the victims can expect to see its processes in system background and can be identified through Windows Task Manager. If the process is dubious one, it can be seen in multiple numbers or also may eating more than enough of system resources like CPU or GPU. In such instances, the overall system performance and speed will be lagging due to lack of resources, and victims will see frequent error messages like missing or corrupted exe files, BSOD messages, and many more.

Trojans are often referred as one of the most hectic malware traits as it not just affects your system speed, and accuracy by eating system resources, but also can be terrible to cause data loss or identity theft. It secretly creates some loophole or backdoor on computer which significantly allows the hackers to steal any sensitive data or information from compromised computers. In order to keep such traits away, a should be highly cautious while installing free third party installers, or while connected to web. To learn more about how to remove Wup.exe dubious copy from compromised computers, we suggest you to refer to guidelines.

Threat Summary

Name: Wup.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner
Description: Wup.exe is a newly discovered trojan horse infection which hides a malicious code within it to do malicious tasks on compromised computer.
Distribution: Deceptive pop up ads, suspicious links or malicious online sources, freeware download channels, and many more.
Removal: Refer to guidelines section under this article to learn easy methods to remove Wup.exe completely.

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 Wup.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 Wup.exe and all detected threats

To delete Wup.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 Wup.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)