How to Remove “qw.exe”


qw.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Quicken Launcher or Quicken Window. It belongs to software Quicken for Windows and was developed by Intuit Inc. It is commonly stored in C:\Program Files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write different types of malicious programs and name it as qw.exe to damage the software and hardware.

Affected Platform: Windows OS

How to check if your computer is infected with qw.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 qw.exe malware

  • If the internet connection fluctuation is high 
  • Qw.exe file is taking more of your CPU memory 
  • System performance is very low
  • System is redirected to some strange websites 
  • System is getting some annoying popup ads 
  • System freezes quiet often
  • It invites 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 qw.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 qw.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program Files then the system is not affected by qw.exe if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by qw.exe malware.

How to remove qw.exe malware from system using Comodo Antivirus?

Ideally, replacing the existing qw.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 the award-winning Free Comodo Antivirus.

Step 2: Check on the “Do not detect new networks again” option when Comodo Internet Security internal firewall activates the network detection process.

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.
 

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Malware Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 25 August 2008 at 2:43 pm
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Malware
Name
Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
Malware Behavior
1 N/A Executable c1df9bad47e10cbd
e1c0186dc05aad30
75bd0804
aa65d8b8d7896d93
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Unclassified
Malware
No N/A N/A Internal Submission N/A
2 N/A Executable 7c6e5723de29fd53
6675b86e80a797c5
417a7c20
014b81217388ea7e
b1502195f868477e
TrojWare.Win
32.TrojanDro
pper.Delf.~B
K
No N/A N/A Internal Submission N/A
3 N/A Executable 066fc506cffae706
b390452eab3b3c6f
fb21084c
8455b833611ce3ee
3cd8c0d9fb5ee430
Worm.Win32.V
B.tbb
No 1.00 1.00 Australia N/A
4 NULL Executable 751c0eead1050730
e09e702ccbcb0284
6dc6f66e
033244d13a3e960a
af554397e62a4340
Unclassified
Malware
No 1.0.0.0 1.0.0.0 Internal Submission N/A
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Safe Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 21 June 2008 at 12:32 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
1 Intuit Inc. Executable a518b27fa710d36c
0be13b3a763f05a8
f77e7817
3bc70f612dbc5694
1a249731681ddcdb
Yes 24.1.1.41 24.1.1.41 Australia
2 Quicken Inc. Executable b180b8d4a018fcd1
89e22e046e396994
0ffbc39b
42a34fc569fd4e61
0e0ecbcc38ba9f94
Yes 27.1.27.24 27.1.27.24 United States
3 Intuit Inc. Executable d7b2c5fd02d88996
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No 013.000.00
0.000
013.000.00
0.000
United States
4 Quicken Inc. Executable 5489cbed5e08a957
7cb7ed5259a6aea6
b2d6a11f
5cf071b958553bd0
0b29b404d313d457
Yes 26.1.6.1 26.1.6.1 United States
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