What is wextract.exe?
wextract.exe is a legitimate file. This process is responsible to extract the Windows .cab files. It 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 the different types of malicious programs and name it as wextract.exe to damage the software and hardware.
Affected Platform: Windows OS
How to check if your computer is infected with wextract.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 wextract.exe malware
- If the internet connection fluctuation is high
- If the wextract.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 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 wextract.exe and open the location, if the location is C:\Windows\System32 then the system is not affected by wextract.exe, if the location is somewhere else then the system is affected by wextract.exe malware.
How to remove wextract.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 wextract.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 | 993b3705da97c5aa cf315c11114d8f13 2896881e |
965b8c660b08c98e ef256b01a4037347 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.00.2900. 5512 (xpsp.0804 13-2105) |
6.00.2900. 5512 |
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N/A |
2 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | a6f322f6b198c159 142bd4d3358d3468 021826e4 |
70ac279cba1c7bb1 e08a88a10f4ef12f |
Virus.Win32. Ramnit.A |
No | 11.00.9600 .16428 (winblue_g dr.131013- 1700) |
11.00.9600 .16428 |
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N/A |
3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 22c15c8373f4de81 2aa6286231e5cde2 34176c62 |
07dab9d959b39555 57fcfe51dc2c9425 |
Virus.Win32. Expiro.ew |
No | 6.00.2900. 2180 (xpsp_sp2_ rtm.040803 -2158) |
6.00.2900. 2180 |
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N/A |
4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 65d1cf6e1989a736 0c8afec456cebbda cc491711 |
b4e4396e31f20065 d668cbf4af11a722 |
Virus.Win32. Virut.CE |
No | 6.00.2900. 5512 (xpsp.0804 13-2105) |
6.00.2900. 5512 |
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N/A |
No. | Company | File Type | SHA1 | MD5 | Digitally Signed |
File Version |
Product Version |
Submitted From |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 298f0ecbf62c746d 639b754a6b7ed958 2c98858c |
1155f0ff61846eb1 96bdb8c47df34f91 |
No | 4.72.2106. 1 |
4.72.2106. 1 |
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2 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 6aab62b523bb184e 4f8b27cfa9bbd371 e8be9ca9 |
d091a58816e8a677 15cc7aaf4de16503 |
No | 8.00.7601. 24000 (win7sp1_l dr.171231- 1547) |
8.00.7601. 24000 |
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3 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 863dd28f1702054c 0f831c127a1e5ea6 d9459a04 |
b9cc7e24db7de2e7 5678761b1d8bac3e |
No | 11.00.1904 1.1 (WinBuild. 160101.080 0) |
11.00.1904 1.1 |
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4 | Microsoft Corporation | Executable | 4e42a42172ea8932 79d6a70408763b8e 08bda68f |
6cb215f4c5c13122 544937688ce33d0b |
No | 5.00.2314. 1000 |
5.00.2314. 1000 |
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