How to Remove “colorify.exe”

What is colorify.exe?

Originally developed by Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team, colorify.exe is a legitimate file process. This process is also known as GNU Image Manipulation Program Plug-In and it belongs to GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is located in C:\Program Files by default.

colorify.exe virus is created when malware authors write virus files and name them after colorify.exe with an aim to spread virus on the internet.

Affected Platform: Windows OS

How to detect whether your system is affected by colorify.exe?

Viruses can easily affect and corrupt “.exe” files causing several system malfunctions. Below are the symptoms to check if your system is infected with the malware:

  • Problem during computer start-up.
  • Problem during program start-up.
  • Errors while running specific functions.
  • Damaged and missing link files.
  • Conflict in the process.
  • Missing or corrupted driver files.
  • Invalid Windows registry.
  • Hardware malfunction.

To further establish the infection of malware, take the following steps:

  • Go to Task Manager by pressing the combination of keys CTRL+ALT+DEL.
  • Go to the process tab and right-click on the colorify.exe file and open its location.

If the file is located outside C:\Program Files, then you should perform an antivirus scan to get rid of the malware infection.

How does Comodo Antivirus help you to protect your system from colorify.exe malware?

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Step 7: If the system is infected with colorify.exe malware or any other threats, you will be prompted with an alert screen upon scanning.

Step 8: Comodo Antivirus will remove colorify.exe malware from your computer including all other malwares!

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Malware Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 10 January 2021 at 11:21 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Malware
Name
Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
Malware Behavior
1 Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team Executable 51418675e48be7b1
d56560d78ba15cf6
e3b09bef
88a5b6f566498054
581243c21766a62b
Virus.Win32.
Sality.gen
No 2.8.4.0 2.8.4 176.106.35.116/32 N/A
2 Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team Executable 911dc77e8cdce07b
6a21dccd9fa049b2
925ed91c
026b771f611bd359
7f07293854d285fc
Virus.Win32.
Sality.gen
No 2.8.14.0 2.8.14 Germany N/A
3 Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team Executable 641178cc9e93f11a
c8313acd27176aba
a422b76f
0f28ddd93e8510a0
dff78326cc4c057f
Virus.Win32.
Sality.gen
No 2.8.4.0 2.8.4 176.106.35.116/32 N/A
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Safe Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 24 December 2008 at 5:34 pm
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
1 N/A Executable 949b5593093b40f3
f501dee6f2c74dcd
ef45dccb
0a2b2cb9f401d1ee
ae2ad8d51d047efb
Yes N/A N/A 10.224.1.54/32
2 Spencer Kimball, Peter Mattis and the GIMP Development Team Executable 67639ed457617114
ae32b9b40747427d
aa6cb54b
407deb827b338271
f8aa18444ababcf4
Yes 2.8.0.0 2.8.0 10.224.1.58/32
3 N/A Executable 1b51db14ce2c9637
9bed54a0d68e408e
107ce7f1
813cefe85f239bc0
79839b0e0844aed6
No N/A N/A 10.100.19.9/32
4 N/A Executable 2b866c0eae1f9272
79158b9a159430ab
ad3c5167
445b9418781c476a
83b88de36bfecdd2
Yes N/A N/A India
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