What is SoundMan.exe?
SoundMan.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Realtek Sound Manager and belongs to software Realtek Sound Manager. It was developed by Realtek Semiconductor. It is commonly stored in C:\Program files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as SoundMan.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with SoundMan.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 SoundMan.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the SoundMan.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 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 SoundMan.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program files then the system is not affected by SoundMan.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by SoundMan.exe malware.
How to remove the SoundMan.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 SoundMan.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. | Executable | d6b30801395e6225 14cc41046c4f5f84 49b5f6ee |
669fc7bd62465ad0 d20c8ade4cb656b2 |
Unclassified Malware |
No | 1, 0, 0, 32 |
1, 0, 0, 32 |
197.36.136.15/32 |
N/A |
| 2 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. | Executable | 8dfd84872da8287c c487a97a9f96dcb9 dfdb0561 |
51579a79a0981c8a 934d2524649424a3 |
Virus.Win32. Ramnit.K |
No | 2.3 | 2.3 | Russian Federation |
N/A |
| 3 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. | Executable | 7d738f9d2f1c70ab 0fb403043c18817c dd6b2981 |
ef4fe8e871075455 1f662d195853d0ef |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 1, 0, 0, 32 |
1, 0, 0, 32 |
185.117.148.254/32 |
N/A |
| 4 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. | Executable | 179caa3b30ac4831 a9f4dc8970b1ae63 112fd2d8 |
6030ca06d35f06b6 89f0b4d46e933a9e |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 5, 1, 0, 59 |
5, 1, 0, 59 |
Egypt |
N/A |
| No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Realtek Semiconductor Corp. | Executable | 3f65f997f350a59a c67e432092cf7f5c fe94a701 |
798c0c1ff4e0fce6 46ca82ae0379ccb0 |
Yes | 1, 0, 0, 32 |
1, 0, 0, 32 |
United States |
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