What is smc.exe?
smc.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Sygate Agent Firewall and belongs to Sygate Security Agent and Personal Firewall and developed by Sygate Technologies. It is commonly stored in C:\Program files. The malware programmers or cyber criminals write the different types of malicious programs and name it as smc.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with smc.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 smc.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the smc.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 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 smc.exe and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program files then the system is not affected by smc.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by smc.exe malware.
How to remove the smc.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 smc.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
First Seen: 30 August 2008 at 8:08 am
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Symantec Corporation | Executable | ad8b0e3eabf3a897 f24b56ca9f08832a 8150a715 |
07bd531951541949 455ea40db77ce3f9 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 11.0.4014. 23 |
11.0.4014. 23 |
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N/A |
2 | N/A | Executable | 850a6a3a130e126e e0620c424c5b3b46 f023c85d |
839b229953dffc88 a9eaf2f04a0810fd |
Virus.Win32. Ramnit.A |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
3 | Sygate Technologies, Inc. | Executable | bc0234968db83d97 f7551fa76454b6a0 41129f6f |
54673fd4430a5371 05ca7076df4115d6 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 5.5.00.251 6 |
5.5.00.251 6 |
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N/A |
4 | N/A | Executable | 26b12e22b2cb3493 9095ea5f467e0577 d13d68e2 |
64dd107b6ab84281 20fe2de4fd11f954 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | 3.0.0.0 | 3.0.0.0 | ![]() |
N/A |
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First Seen: 21 June 2008 at 2:05 am
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
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1 | Symantec Corporation | Executable | d941e0caf5be36f9 2fbc255f97509bed ed8caedf |
7c1e19f8e6b2e10c 349439105efbc2a1 |
Yes | 14.0.2415. 0200 |
14.0.2415. 0200 |
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2 | Symantec Corporation | Executable | 59139759e49fe7ca 049b9fc07f6729a3 2209b40b |
55b7db3472d3da01 af5159ef15b0bf43 |
Yes | 12.1.2100. 2093 |
12.1.2100. 2093 |
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3 | Symantec Corporation | Executable | 7dc8beed42b43815 855caaefb138a50f c5883ef2 |
33d99d35973f1026 d59a214562f4870c |
Yes | 14.0.1904. 0000 |
14.0.1904. 0000 |
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4 | Sygate Technologies, Inc. | Executable | 45a1fdd988b59ae2 b188cd959eb8ec83 0ad6d5b3 |
59c7e1c362f3718f 74a100e45e9d2792 |
No | 5.6.00.280 8 |
5.6.00.280 8 |
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