What is sqlservr.exe?

sqlservr.exe  is a legitimate file. This process is known as Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Engine  and belongs to software Microsoft SQL Server. It is developed by Microsoft Corporation.  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 sqlservr.exe to damage the software and hardware.

Affected Platform: Windows OS

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

• If the internet connection fluctuation is high 
• If the sqlservr.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 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 sqlservr.exe file and open the location, if the location is subfolder C:\Program files then the system is not affected by sqlservr.exe if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by sqlservr.exe  malware.