What is CCXProcess.exe and how to remove it?

CCXProcess.exe is an executable file that runs in background of Windows PC. It is part of Adobe Creative Cloud that has set of applications and comes with feature such as web development, photography, video editing and others. It is rare that you find this process running of Task manager. However, most of users complain about degradation in system performance and high memory consumption on Windows.

Aforementioned issue clearly indicates about existence of some virus or Trojan on targeted PC or incompatibility of Adobe software with installed security applications. In most of cases virus on your computer is root cause for such issues. As per research and reports, some users complain about running of 200 instances that includes several child processes. It also has locked Chrome browser, apps that are using bandwidth and other things connected to Internet. All such activities clearly indicate that CCXProcess.exe is a computer virus. Its existence for longer duration can cause bigger issues and financial loss.

As we know, Trojan and other malware is capable to trace your browsing movement and collect sensitive data such as banking login information, credit card number, password of social sites, IP addresses and others. All such gathered data is transported to remote server of hackers. So, it is recommended to take immediate action to remove CCXProcess.exe virus and its other associated files. You can perform removal action by scanning with Spyhunter Anti-malware. It allows you search for malicious process and helps you in elimination in simple mouse clicks.

Besides, it is capable to alter its name with several vital files and named as CCXProcess.exe to avoid being doubtful for computer users. It also uses big volume of CPU, GPU and RAM and utilizes for crypto-mining. The cyber hacker’s compute critical mathematical algorithm with intention to generate crypto currency and then it is transferred to crypt- wallets of hackers.

Some red signals on your computer that will help you to identify malware existence:

• You will see CCXProcess.exe file running on Windows even you not have any Adobe application installed
• You need to right click on file in Task Manager and select open file location. If the location not matches with Adobe folder than it is clear symptom of some virus that you need to scan
• You see existence of this file after some torrent downloads or installation of cracked software
• Existence of some suspicious file suddenly has degraded overall system performance.

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 CCXProcess.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 CCXProcess.exe and all detected threats

To delete CCXProcess.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 CCXProcess.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)