What is tasklist.exe?
tasklist.exe is a legitimate file and the process is known as Task List. It belongs to the Microsoft Operating System that was developed by the 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 tasklist.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with tasklist.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 tasklist.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the tasklist.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 tasklist.exe and open the location, if the location is C:\Windows\System32 files then the system is not affected by tasklist.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by tasklist.exe malware.
How to remove tasklist.exe malware 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: 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.
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 tasklist.exe virus from your computer including all other malwares!
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Malware Name |
Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
Malware Behavior |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | e949313078df7aa5 9c2c4293d9ed74b2 b7ddab6d |
537567b09aedb38c 5a9b050783018a24 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.1.7600.1 6385 (win7_rtm. 090713-125 5) |
6.1.7600.1 6385 |
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N/A |
2 | N/A | Executable | 4ff94f1a3177b8e6 a396126fd76a5907 8a050967 |
5b86897246dd85d9 c5d4024edc8b19fb |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
3 | N/A | Executable | b52434e1f5cea671 6b19ad8624f024f1 fb121719 |
6b4f933b285a2ecf f2e995285b026537 |
Virus.Win32. Sality.gen |
No | N/A | N/A | ![]() |
N/A |
4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 8061a35a2b26dcee e890d5a2e003af8c c010daa0 |
fec1fadc27219933 ce8635425980725c |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 5.1.2600.5 512 (xpsp.0804 13-2105) |
5.1.2600.5 512 |
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N/A |
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | b96861e452a92fd4 20383e2abdb6916e 4f6b5c39 |
78a6c04c4141d211 a306357fe49b4393 |
No | 5.0.2195.6 824 (win2ksp.0 30619-1218 ) |
5.0.2195.6 824 |
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2 | N/A | Executable | d83ee4d0f2662653 23d85109c820ae15 f5bcee40 |
e570e64de6aceb13 b1abb5ad88bc4f73 |
No | 1.0.0.0 | 1.0.0.0 | ![]() |
3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 1b65aa9850b3f824 713eea12a94d0d97 94378369 |
5613c74181a9d4fa b1c72abba71ca6b2 |
No | 5.1.2600.0 (XPClient. 010817-114 8) |
5.1.2600.0 | ![]() |
4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 7f50d8c3cf3ec791 22a876e969bdb65d 939becd0 |
0a4448b31ce7f83c b7691a2657f330f1 |
No | 10.0.19041 .1 (WinBuild. 160101.080 0) |
10.0.19041 .1 |
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