Remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE virus (Removal Guide)

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What is ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE?

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE is considered as malicious program (malware).

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE detected as TROJ.SERVICE.
ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE actively resists detection and employs a number of techniques to ensure that you cannot remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE from infected computers.

Technical Information:

Full path on a computer= %APPDATA%\ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE

How ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE got on your computer?

Phishing is the most common way for malware to infect computers.
It could be a fake email message that appears to be originated from Microsoft Customer Service, eBay, PayPal, Amazon, or even your bank or insurance company.
Fake emails that appear to come from the police, the FBI and other government entities were also reported.

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE could also infect your computer by exploiting a security vulnerability of your Web browser or one of its plugins.
If this is the case, ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE would be injected into a Web page, and could get to your PC when you visited a malicious or hacked Web site.

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE can be distributed with legitimate software that is repackaged by the scammers.
It could be downloaded from warez Web sites or download archives.

How do you know you have ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE on my computer?

ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE works in background. It does not appear as a window, does not have a shortcut.
ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE hides its existence from your eyes.

You have 2 ways to remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE:

You have 2 ways

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

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How to remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

http://…

You can see ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE or another web site at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

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STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.
Remove ADOBE FLASH PLAYER SERVICE.EXE from scheduled task list.