What is antimalware.exe?

antimalware.exe is part of Active Security and developed by Active Security Software according to the antimalware.exe version information.

antimalware.exe's description is "Active Security"

antimalware.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files\AntiMalware\' folder.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on antimalware.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameActive Security
Company nameActive Security Software
File descriptionActive Security
Internal nameasecurity.exe
Original filenameasecurity.exe
Legal copyright(c) Active Security Software. All rights reserved.
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameActive Security
Company nameActive Security Software
File descriptionActive Security
Internal nameasecurity.exe
Original filenameasecurity.exe
Legal copyright(c) Active Security Software. All r..
Product version1.0.0.1
File version1.0.0.1

Digital signatures [?]

antimalware.exe is not signed.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5d7cb2ac94a4ad92df54f46fa1a1518dc
SHA256959d2f7efc5aa7fa719067d466f73aa4c015adddc5149663351a604beda47314

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to antimalware.exe:

antimalware.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

antimalware.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

Active Security has stopped working.

End Program - antimalware.exe. This program is not responding.

antimalware.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

antimalware.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

What will you do with the file?

To help other users, please let us know what you will do with the file:



What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with the file. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 13 users.

Votes
Keep0 %
0
Remove100 %
13

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with the file. Only 13 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Malware or legitimate?

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Roger Karlsson writes

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antimalware.exe is a faked anti-malware program. It claims to find viruses, trojans, rootkits, etc on a clean system.

Screenshot here:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_tUgxW0VPLAY/SvhRQAyexsI/AAAAAAAAAJM/lfkquJrpfCc/s1600-h/antimalware-rogue.PNG

# 9 Nov 2009, 9:41

Roger Karlsson writes

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Ran into antimalware.exe again. Here's the scan result from virustotal.com. Only 7/41 anti-virus programs detects this at the time of writing:

http://www.virustotal.com/analisis/6339de7cc56d2710d8811778fa8923caab33d5871d0a677a8ae6a876e68d7044-1260219176

# 7 Dec 2009, 15:37

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