What is vshost.exe?
vshost.exe is a legitimate file. This process is known as VisualStudio hosting process and belongs to Microsoft Visual Studio. 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 vshost.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with vshost.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 vshost.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the vshost.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 vshost.exe and open the location, if the location is C:\Windows\System32 then the system is not affected by vshost.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by vshost.exe malware.
How to remove vshost.exe malware from system using Comodo Antivirus?
Step 1: Download the award-winning Free Antivirus.
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 vshost.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 |
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1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | f75adc53d6a7975f c8f79723e08975a5 883143fb |
4c94bc80632b3498 04c682c8c7ef1c44 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 8.0.50727. 42 |
8.0.50727. 42 |
India | N/A |
2 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 180a08cf6f116a97 ea12c69c0da53627 ef476784 |
60bfe7420329477a cbe31283531e9cf8 |
Virus.Win32. MadAngel.n |
Yes | 9.0.30729. 4462 |
9.0.30729. 4462 |
Indonesia | N/A |
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No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
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1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 177f4fa9093ac371 5ad9ea8252307f30 a45c9a77 |
1ed5e3ddc09f15f6 c7b5f35e82d861b5 |
Yes | 17.0.32113 .165 |
17.0.32113 .165 |
10.224.25.207/32 |
2 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 16e4991ccf7221ea 7ec8e664853fe921 f6b34b24 |
ce15833cb546176d 2660efa4ed803680 |
Yes | 15.0.33403 .129 |
15.0.33403 .129 |
United States |
3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 93a8ae1f33845ed4 2125f59abb05ad46 03bd6e5d |
6e28053b258e945a 288a17672b8bd1ac |
Yes | 17.0.33326 .253 |
17.0.33326 .253 |
United States |
4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 47a4085f3c5d655a e8900b006426e2d7 7c44708e |
0de90eb226e61ace 6495c1ceee8b6d0c |
Yes | 16.0.32413 .511 |
16.0.32413 .511 |
United States |
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