What is Agent.exe?
Agent.exe is InstallSheild update service agent and it is mostly useful to check updates of certain softwares. Rather than being exclusive to any OS platform, this type of virus is spread through email and malicious websites. When you mistakenly double click on such exe files, it replaces the existing original files and affects your computer.
Affected OS/Platform: Windows
How to find out if a system is affected by Agent.exe malware?
This type of malware usually slows down the system to slow down significantly, which is one way to assume if your computer is malware victim.
Step 1: Press the keys CTRL+ALT+DEL in combination to open Task Manager.
Step 2: Check the list file to see if Agent.exe is taking extra CPU usage.
Step 3: If it's taking a larger storage space, then it's an Agent.exe malware.
How to remove the agent.exe file from system?
- Download our award-winning Comodo free antivirus software
- Installation configuration frames will be displayed. Select the configuration you would like to apply
- Select Customize Configuration option and arrange installers, configuration, and file location.
- Once the Installation is Finished, restart your PC.
- Comodo Internet Security starts antivirus bases update. It takes sometime to get updated.
- After the update, a Quick scan is executed.
- If threats are found upon completion of scanning, you will be prompted with an alert screen.
- It will remove the Agent.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares.
First Seen: 22 March 2023 at 11:15 pm
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Macrovision Corporation | Executable | 18bb6bd2435e6d27 24909b653cb5f3ad 02b1faa6 |
3d6ce0df7e2c2dd6 707c118eb6bf6657 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 4, 60, 100, 37068 |
4, 60 |  Russian Federation |
N/A |
| 2 | Macrovision Corporation | Executable | 495990ba3ec90079 3e2345bee7a0fd29 eaf3afa9 |
68dee8ee46828f6a 3d2a4c8266977187 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 5, 01, 100, 47363 |
5, 01 |  197.54.35.28/32 |
N/A |
| 3 | N/A | Executable | 9b4b197b3ef94e5b 8f7099024c309d3d ca090f8f |
5701ae589c1f11c1 ef6c5c56cc827bb4 |
Worm.Win32.D elf.nj |
No | N/A | N/A | 103.25.251.225/32 |
N/A |
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First Seen: 05 June 2008 at 11:21 am
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Datadog, Inc. | Executable | da2e7974bfa18bfb ef1067a3ac2cd1ca 8a0a5a7c |
108fdb903f483022 29046187c18c77af |
Yes | 7.60.0.0 | 7.60.0.0 | 104.238.128.144/32 |
| 2 | Datadog, Inc. | Executable | 3e00a4148b051da8 b9b65b9344b8738d 1868a094 |
c4c751030a6ab434 aab8e0ad2cfc06ae |
Yes | 7.60.1.0 | 7.60.1.0 | 104.238.128.144/32 |
| 3 | Datadog, Inc. | Executable | 95be90b9d744ef63 695739bda0e7ff8b 17d8ff36 |
dccc61164e66f406 1338fe625802ba64 |
Yes | 7.48.0.0 | 7.48.0.0 |  United States |
| 4 | Datadog, Inc. | Executable | 2a65f9c4e7d52cd0 29654ab7e95998ba 0fdba1f8 |
a1d98aad65ed5117 eaf07f41d613251f |
Yes | 7.54.0.0 | 7.54.0.0 | 104.238.128.144/32 |
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