What is setup.exe?
setup.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as setup program and it is a very common file name for all the software product to install applications. Based on the application it can be installed anywhere in the hard disk. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as setup.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with setup.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 setup.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the setup.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.
How to remove the setup.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 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 setup.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
Related Resources:
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First Seen: 01 August 2008 at 6:49 pm
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Chromium Authors | Executable | 3cfe73dff5974832 ef559092a229d0fb 65cd38bc |
22696744b405d6b6 b6e841830b54110a |
No | 141.0.7383 .0 |
141.0.7383 .0 |
 United States |
| 2 | The Chromium Authors | Executable | a691e0bc4d00aca9 68597d397a61f3db af3cefb2 |
44f4473936e60fec 92adba01e7efebd1 |
No | 141.0.7383 .0 |
141.0.7383 .0 |
United States |
| 3 | mozilla.org | Executable | 50b12e09a4d83283 d83e9343ec9a2c47 c3249c18 |
1961eb5a8fade62b 143fc492b9286fa4 |
Yes | 144.0a1 | 144.0a1 |  104.238.128.144/32 |
| 4 | The Chromium Authors | Executable | f19afced92a86537 c3ba43fffb4eaa86 2a363ed5 |
118016c380284631 68d15c4803e63e4a |
No | 142.0.7397 .0 |
142.0.7397 .0 |
104.238.128.144/32 |
