What is acad.exe?
acad.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as AutoCAD Application. It belongs to software AutoCAD and developed by AutoCAD Electrical. It is commonly stored in C:\Program Files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write different types of malicious programs and name it as acad.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with acad.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 acad.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the acad.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 acad.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program Files files then the system is not affected by acad.exe , if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by acad.exe malware.
How to remove acad.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 acad.exe malware 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 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | bd69cb4cbbe3dfdd ee7e23c041514515 3129a487 |
23c293fab6aeab95 68ebed3a16b9e48a |
Virus.Win32. Floxif.A |
Yes | R17.1.51.0 | R17.1.51.0 | ![]() |
N/A |
2 | N/A | Executable | 34edd26a57226abc dfe926ab88bb8fe4 8eff0e7f |
a971fa51a1708859 fbaa2756469b7b6f |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
3 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | 092c97631f5f39c0 f012da25e3321b6f 61b44f6b |
26d1168a637fe40e 9bdc156cb72be31e |
Virus.Win32. Floxif.A |
Yes | R17.0.54.0 | R17.0.54.0 | ![]() |
N/A |
4 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | c13d6f1978495a9f 32085e4c68c4149f 8303ffc7 |
2bfc87c1bbc501a4 908ec72b76883d4c |
Virus.Win32. Floxif.A |
Yes | R17.1.51.0 | R17.1.51.0 | ![]() |
N/A |
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | ff3f207d6912da17 3971d9a8215fc7bb 7367888b |
b3bbba837464ae67 dd8d31497d80214a |
No | R15.06.030 | R15.06.030 | ![]() |
2 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | 0945626cb1827983 fc60591738b1bf49 d51f1502 |
af1d1495c7635a0b fc79e4f179f2c6cd |
No | R15.06.030 | R15.06.030 | ![]() |
3 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | 4b4b4943da702bb9 363d2fda53f1fc66 e854c95a |
13a2c3cf18bf609d 0ded467015f67d03 |
No | R15.06.030 | R15.06.030 | ![]() |
4 | Autodesk, Inc. | Executable | 025b69b4cf22e205 cc6c54ca15e6c550 1d2e5755 |
3aa572b58c040bbc 2b021149833fc188 |
No | R15.0.0 | R15.0.0 | ![]() |