What is sleep.exe?
sleep.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as sleep windows and belongs to Hewlett-Packard Sleep Application or Microsoft Windows NT Operating System. This is developed by HP or Microsoft Corporation. It is commonly stored in sub folder of C:\Program files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as sleep.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with sleep.exe malware?
Malicious authors try to infect the systems with different types of malicious programs. Each form of malicious software is designed to infect the system that creates different issues and impact on the system. One can notice the following changes once the system is infected with sleep.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the sleep.exe file is taking more of your CPU memory
- If the system performance is very low
- If the system is redirected to some strange websites
- If the system is getting some annoying popup ads
- If the system freezes quiet often
- If it invites the other malware to infect and damage the system and exploits the same to collect the user private information
When one of these happens then you can be sure that your system is infected with setup.exe malware. To confirm that go to task manager by pressing the combination of keys ctrl+alt+del and go to the process tab and right click on the sleep.exe file and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program files then the system is not affected by sleep.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by sleep.exe malware.
How to remove the sleep.exe file from system using Comodo Antivirus?
Step 1: Download the award-winning Free Internet Security.
Step 2: Installation configuration frames will be displayed. Select the configuration you would like to apply.
Step 3: Select Customize Configuration option and arrange installers, configuration, and file location.
Step 4: Restart your PC.
Step 5: It will take some time for the Comodo Internet Security to update the antivirus.
Step 6: Proceed with a quick virus scan that automatically begins after the update.
Step 7: If threats are found during the scanning, you will be prompted with an alert screen.
Step 8: Comodo Antivirus will remove the sleep.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
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First Seen: 20 October 2011 at 8:00 am
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | af3721fcdbe1785c 9b4101d92f873248 7a017fa4 |
f187098abc8acea5 18a173bdbe8dc1ca |
Virus.Win32. Sality.L |
No | 5.2.3790.0 built by: dnsrv_dev( v-smgum) |
5.2.3790.0 |  United States |
N/A |
| 2 | Microsoft | Executable | a84d1c12ce150df9 ce57f0a908d61012 32ba13d0 |
dad0b814a5066a9a 7ca2b64958e86acd |
Unclassified Malware |
No | 1.0.0.0 | 1.0.0.0 |  Internal Submission |
N/A |
| 3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | abddef5ef67478d6 fba57ac80527f4bf ac978bd2 |
e8c637d06f8a80a2 45b04ad7d80e8d44 |
Virus.Win32. Parite.gen |
No | 5.2.3790.0 built by: dnsrv_dev( v-smgum) |
5.2.3790.0 |  Thailand |
N/A |
| 4 | N/A | Executable | 33e64964a6b401a4 5a35702a90c1da51 0c3f4e0c |
60e205970a2d93e2 54ceb4d362d0f800 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | N/A | N/A |  India |
N/A |
United Kingdom
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First Seen: 02 July 2008 at 9:09 am
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | N/A | Executable | d2bd419598039800 cbd0328dc1cc5aa5 bf88c0ec |
88febf0cd8c181cd 5fba4362858618b1 |
No | N/A | N/A | 10.224.1.63/32 |
| 2 | N/A | Executable | 64b55f799b7b6f5c 0906a4e403ea1619 1a4ce090 |
88ff56905187bbc2 2b105be3c5a6bb62 |
No | N/A | N/A | Internal Submission |
| 3 | N/A | Executable | e265425e27f75100 4e14ecd803efa248 3cee43d3 |
ae3d9722077041b1 2ed8575a7d7cac3a |
No | N/A | N/A | Internal Submission |
| 4 | N/A | Executable | f453838ed21020b7 ca059244feea8579 e5aa74ef |
1a1075e5e307f3a4 b8527110a51ce827 |
No | N/A | N/A | United States |
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