What is smss.exe?
smss.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as Session Manager Subsystem. This is responsible for handling sessions on your system and 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 different types of malicious programs and name it as smss.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with smss.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 smss.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the smss.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 smss.exe file and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Windows\System32 then the system is not affected by smss.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by smss.exe malware.
How to remove the smss.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 smss.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
First Seen: 09 October 2011 at 12:03 pm
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | N/A | Executable | 44ee6abbd54a5327 78017737aa9efe08 05be71b2 |
b24cfdeea3a6fa57 47231b3c3c6fc41a |
Unclassified Malware |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
2 | N/A | Executable | 9a28610ea1ad206b 98cc78058ba97729 d05d3fc1 |
30b7283ef24207e2 3f8b589b51a5fbe5 |
TrojWare.Win 32.TrojanDro pper.Agent.~ AAEE |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
3 | N/A | Executable | 27505f23ca3ad7ab 144e63f8d0f4922a 991c8e01 |
be9f506916170c20 030f13fd4d9d8209 |
Packed.Win32 .MUPX.Gen |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
4 | Microsoft Update | Executable | f0e86af9ee066f1a 85f7114f3a8bc497 dd1a7718 |
a36158f09dc0913a 5e93b0b30f33d53c |
Unclassified Malware |
No | 6.16.9 | Microsoft Corporatio n |
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N/A |
First Seen: 25 June 2008 at 3:36 pm
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 尹腾 | Executable | 4c6c8ea662ef137e 2645f0759cae7839 fb59bd8e |
683f3dadb86d14cc 98820be41efd4d03 |
No | 3.02.0021 | 3.02.0021 | ![]() |
2 | Light Star Information | Executable | 51830da238932454 68900c497a4bfc68 fd51ac66 |
5fd5a7d0883b23ad a0b9340831f7bf3d |
Yes | 0, 0, 0, 249 |
0, 0, 0, 249 |
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3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 92c308d21495b6e4 a4f38cbb348e658e c56a0c9a |
e6555b70cc5c9d65 e2fdf035ea479c32 |
No | 5.2.3790.3 959 (srv03_sp2 _rtm.07021 6-1710) |
5.2.3790.3 959 |
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4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | ee8b39cf815b2b77 4389b157fb6801fd 5b1bf9a4 |
a8ee5d47b54be46b b51d53ab4474e6d2 |
No | 3.51 | 3.51 | ![]() |