Quite often, users are faced with one of the most interesting and non-standard threats called Engine.exe. How to remove it, now let's see, but at the same time we will determine what kind of thing this is, how it affects the system.
What is the Engine.exe virus?
In general, the virus itself is the so-called miner. In terms of behavior, it is very specific. This program, penetrating the system, begins to actively use its resources, producing a huge number of mathematical operations. The results of the calculations, of course, are sent to its creators.
Roughly speaking, attackers use foreign computers to perform some tasks without loading their own. The consequence of this activity is unreasonably high load on the central processor and RAM. What is most sad, the virus can duplicate itself. It is not surprising that in the "Task Manager" the user sometimes observes up to a dozen processes of the same name.
How does a virus enter the system?
The question of how to remove the Engine.exe program is left aside for now, but first, let's see how this threat penetrates the system. The simplest example. Suppose a user has a permanent or temporary Internet connection. He wants to install the game he likes on the computer, but not from the official distribution, but from the downloaded package on the Internet or some kind of assembled package.
In this case, we are talking about the fact that the installation recommendations contain a prerequisite for disabling the antivirus, they say, without this the game will not install correctly. Naive users turn off the scanner and firewall, as a result of which they “catch” this infection.
Symptoms of infection
It’s worth noting that the virus manifests itself not only in the form of the Engine.exe process in the “Device Manager”. It is still present as a file on the hard drive. However, do not confuse the virus file with the launch file of some games. If someone paid attention, the main "executable" sometimes also has the name Engine. The virus cannot be located in the folder with the officially installed game.
The first signs of infection are an excessive load on the processor, in some cases reaching 70-100%, and almost full load of the "RAM". At the same time, the system’s own processes either start very slowly or do not start at all.
In addition to braking the computer, traffic consumption increases markedly. Well, if the connection is prepaid. And if the payment directly depends on the incoming and outgoing traffic? These are serious material costs. As a result of all these actions, failures occur, of which the system immediately issues a notification. How to remove the Engine.exe error and the virus itself, now let's see. This is easy to do, but still be patient.
Engine.exe virus: how to delete the file you are looking for?
So, let's say Engine Engine virus has settled in the computer. How to remove it in the simplest way? Very simple. First, call the "Task Manager" with the taskmgr command in the Run menu (Win + R) or in any other convenient way, and right-click on the Engine.exe process.
In the pop-up context menu, select the property line, and then on the General tab, look at the file location (of course, remember the path).
Then you can look at the startup using the msconfig command and the corresponding tab. In most cases, there will not be such a process, but it is worth making sure that it is absent. If it is there, you just need to uncheck the line of automatic start.
Next, restart the computer system in safe mode. This is usually done using the F8 key at the boot stage. In the "top ten" this mode is launched in a slightly different way, but now is not about that. When the system is fully loaded, we again enter the "Task Manager" and try to terminate all processes with the name Engine.exe (sometimes this can be done, sometimes not).
Now in the "Explorer" we find the desired file by the previously calculated path. As a rule, it is located in the Roaming folder of the AppData directory, which is located in the volume with the user name, and in subfolders like X9, X10, X11, X13, etc. At this stage, first delete the file itself, as well as an object called cppredistx86. exe, and then the entire folder (s) with the virus. The AppData folder is hidden, so first you need to display it by making the appropriate settings in the "View Menu".
How to remove Engine.exe (the virus leaves registry entries)?
The next and most important step. At this stage, you will need to enter the registry editor (regedit command in the Run menu), since the object creates keys there that are not similar to the name Engine.exe. How to remove the virus in this case? This is done by entering the HKLU section, where you need to move down the folder tree to the Run directory.
On the right (in the next window) we find all the records containing something like Microsoft Visual C ++, and delete the keys, as they say, without a twinge of conscience. In fact, this is not a real package from Microsoft, but a camouflage service, which is precisely responsible for launching the virus.
Actions after deletion
So, we figured out what Engine.exe is. How to remove the virus is also clear. Finally, a few words about what it is desirable to do after a complete removal. First of all, you should reboot the system in normal mode and see if there is activity that has been noticed before. The fact is that in some cases the virus may be in other folders, and in the tree of running processes it may even have a different name.
But suppose that the virus was completely and completely removed . Now it remains to launch some powerful anti-virus module and check the system using the advanced scanning mode. Of course, this can take a lot of time, but as they say, it is better not to risk it. By the way, it is better not to use SMART scanning, since the threat located on the computer may not be determined. This mode is mainly used for startup items and system components (services and processes necessary for the correct operation of the "OS").