How to Remove “shutdown.exe”

What is shutdown.exe?


shutdown.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as shutdown application. It belongs to Microsoft Windows Operating System. It is developed by Microsoft Corporation.  It is commonly stored in C:\Windows\System32.  The malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as shutdown.exe to damage the software and hardware.
 
Affected Platform: Windows OS
 

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

  • If the internet connection fluctuation is high 
  • If the shutdown.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 information
When one of these happens then you can be sure that your system is infected with shutdown.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 shutdown.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Windows\System32 then the system is not affected by shutdown.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by shutdown.exe malware.
 
How to remove the shutdown.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 shutdown.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
 
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Malware Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 20 October 2021 at 10:37 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Malware
Name
Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
Malware Behavior
1 Microsoft Corporation Executable 75fbce98d7d02e9d
1001c9239394ad45
27f567f5
d95aac26fdea7501
0b9b056b48a0263b
Virus.Win32.
Virut.CE
No 6.1.7600.1
6385
(win7_rtm.
090713-125
5)
6.1.7600.1
6385
102.41.94.50/32 N/A
2 Microsoft Corporation Executable cc0f95afba94dd80
e85924e312af3724
c558f622
57aae9e56a513c51
2cf2f87f450fde40
Virus.Win32.
Virut.CE
No 5.1.2600.5
512
(xpsp.0804
13-2113)
5.1.2600.5
512
102.41.88.6/32 N/A
3 www.sordum.org Executable 107b7319d22d3d49
93973069af2c8565
284914d0
b86207de5ea6da6e
e5b08e5c39275ea9
Virus.Win32.
Sality.gen
No 1.1.0.0 N/A 156.221.145.116/32 N/A
4 Microsoft Corporation Executable 175b69d0530c60d3
3ec0e7085792165c
b26f317a
880a2f3010aa6355
cc6f111d0d9b340a
Virus.Win32.
Virut.CE
No 6.1.7600.1
6385
(win7_rtm.
090713-125
5)
6.1.7600.1
6385
Egypt N/A
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Safe Entries

Safe Entries
First Seen: 26 November 2008 at 6:25 am
No. Company File Type SHA1 MD5 Digitally
Signed
File
Version
Product
Version
Submitted
From
1 N/A Executable 947845f6f9efc251
28bb975e2cffa5a2
54356604
e38b21f39b8b29b6
469a63191f88928a
No N/A N/A United States
2 Microsoft Corporation Executable daf6d8af4e015dd9
242998d8288557b2
53f30143
f2a4e18da72bb2c5
b21076a5de382a20
No 10.0.19041
.1
(WinBuild.
160101.080
0)
10.0.19041
.1
United States
3 N/A Non-executable 006378c5b842953a
74fc02ba0dae0ec8
3910f161
ebeb4eb0d6435004
47f6224b556ea60b
No N/A N/A 10.224.25.207/32
4 AVEVA Executable 856e16b25c554814
c3a98121ea4d986c
745dfcc5
7b1a3d4fa7b7e937
421056233077c111
Yes 4601.2211.
1401.0000
20.0.3.0 United States
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