How to Remove “Acrobat.exe”

What is Acrobat.exe?

Acrobat.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Portable Document Format. It belongs to software Adobe Acrobat Reader and is developed by Adobe Systems. It is commonly stored in C:\Program Files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write different types of malicious programs and name it as Acrobat.exe to damage the software and hardware.

Affected Platform: Windows OS

How to check if your computer is infected with Acrobat.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 Acrobat.exe malware

  • If the internet connection fluctuation is high 
  • If the Acrobat.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 other malware to infect and damage the system and exploits the same to collect the user private informaton

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 Acrobat.exe  and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program Files files then the system is not affected by Acrobat.exe , if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by Acrobat.exe malware.

How to remove Acrobat.exe malware from system using Comodo Antivirus?

Step 1: Download the award-winning Free Comodo Antivirus.

Step 2: Installation configuration frames will be displayed. Select the configuration you would like to apply.

Step 3: After network detection is complete, press “Close” button for a scan window.

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 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 Acrobat.exe malware from your computer including all other malwares!

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Malware Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 08 October 2011 at 7:05 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Malware
Name
Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
Malware Behavior
1 N/A Executable d5b89c2ed464cdbb
8705741a3e56deaf
e0da40fe
a968518d7be8d41c
479b16b8301563e5
Backdoor.Win
32.DarkKomet
.GH
No N/A N/A Thailand N/A
2 N/A Executable 3e28427ce7d8f989
93d77ae88b626d53
5d3162c4
6b57c88fb877d1df
04314e55f95a5bd1
Win32.Neshta
.A
No N/A N/A 181.66.169.99/32 N/A
3 Adobe Systems Incorporated Executable 815a129b76953ca5
3b44b29c534a745a
3cff097a
35c851b365e1576b
c97bf38e7a3c7606
Virus.Win32.
Ramnit.K
No 7.0.0.2004
121400
7.0.0.2004
121400
Maldives N/A
4 Adobe Systems Incorporated Executable 4cf3ccc9a36d217f
693b081826050a90
6c784ef8
63755f7d91b7d4ff
853279ad3f6d2042
TrojWare.Win
32.Trojan.Ag
ent.Gen
Yes 10.1.4.38 10.1.4.38 Internal Submission N/A
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Safe Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 23 February 2011 at 11:23 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
1 Adobe Systems Incorporated Executable 884d0b00291c105e
af40f04557f2b021
92c5d62b
5a454af4cd1d090b
da579bed7cb618b6
No 5.0.5.2001
102600
5.0.5.0 Oman
2 Adobe Systems Incorporated Executable 22e520300b4a3b34
56594307f7a8e961
6aa691cb
ff0c3a88825e1f03
20abc4c52ceabba4
Yes 22.1.20085
.0
22.1.20085
.0
10.224.25.207/32
3 Adobe Systems Incorporated Executable 6740949213b91683
4e27761bff06a5db
e5a77b04
15d504447a0d0e9c
ab49ef4af36bd64f
No 4.05 4.05 Czech Republic
4 N/A Executable ad36ed88a8e9461f
c8885265d5e91150
c35780db
8ea92359881b552e
43841aa3f0bb7a37
No N/A N/A Serbia
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