What is control.exe?
control.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Sandboxie Control. It belongs to software Sandboxie and developed by Microsoft. It is commonly stored in C:\Program Files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write different types of malicious programs and name it as control.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with control.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 control.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the control.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 control.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program Files files then the system is not affected by control.exe , if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by control.exe malware.
How to remove control.exe malware from system using Comodo Antivirus?
Ideally, replacing the existing control.exe file on your computer with a different version procured from the Internet is advisable. To remove the file using Comodo's trusted and effective antivirus software, follow the steps below:
Step 1: Download our award-winning Comodo Free 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 control.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 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | ff273a2aca351445 f49f545050f616f3 62b5698e |
1a4cee497c446645 47b38e51a2d55731 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.1.7600.1 6385 (win7_rtm. 090713-125 5) |
6.1.7600.1 6385 |
156.207.88.166/32 | N/A |
2 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 0a7223de7623a761 16cbda1cb89d88d9 6008454c |
22beceb08f913d9a c4b6db9bb8c18a14 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.1.7600.1 6385 (win7_rtm. 090713-125 5) |
6.1.7600.1 6385 |
Vietnam | N/A |
3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | eb2af9240d1ce4c4 38c7fe536d14490e d20edc77 |
50c0f94dec1db989 b65a0ea0e033a939 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.1.7600.1 6385 (win7_rtm. 090713-125 5) |
6.1.7600.1 6385 |
South Africa | N/A |
4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 3ea275cef6b70b5f 51911072ff3deade 8f64c1ea |
ba55dc1b7fbbbf02 f342f5503fc19951 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.1.7600.1 6385 (win7_rtm. 090713-125 5) |
6.1.7600.1 6385 |
154.121.94.198/32 | N/A |
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | ACCOTEST | Executable | d0ab68724a821b0b 009f4287249ec33b b024d486 |
872f492a11ae518b 5ae0f64124776886 |
No | 1.5.0.62 | 1.0.0.0 | United States |
2 | HFTC | Executable | 7952ab7e8d337e55 eb11603eb30c819a fed6958f |
9780f9def6f0c9d9 6e6f65d010ad9742 |
No | 1.0.8.0 | 1.0.0.0 | United States |
3 | ACCOTEST | Executable | a10bf97fa177b318 c8f63f503c3e58bb cc080df6 |
4744e71cf6d2f8ca 6dce09988556d8f7 |
No | 1.5.1.5002 | 1.0.0.0 | United States |
4 | ACCOTEST | Executable | 3a3ed61940c9a58b c99c7b92985244ed 7d7c1e0b |
9a5391fa8aa6550e 5dd5c93d18aa2f7e |
No | 1.5.1.6 | 1.0.0.0 | 10.224.25.96/32 |