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Solve : Problems with installing apps in Windows 10 - Caused by the Trojan wlanext.exe?!?

Answer» <html><body><strong>Hello Folks! - I've got this pretty tricky Windows 10 Problem.</strong>  <br/><br/><strong>A</strong> few weeks ago I suddenly discovered that my PC got hot every time I had it logged online, so I opened the Task Manager where I saw that the processor was charged by as much as <strong>35%!</strong>(AMD) although I only had a browser running. When I scrolled down the list of running applications I saw an unknown clown-like icon - the application was named <strong><em>wlanext.exe</em></strong> - I have not seen it before and had no idea what it was for. This application alone used about <strong>25%!</strong> of the processor power. After reading a little about it here on the web, I have understood that I'm not the only one who has been <em>visited</em> by this <em>clown</em>.<br/><br/><strong>S</strong>ome <em>experts</em> say that it's completely harmless, and others that it's <strong>not</strong> - it's a <strong>Trojan!</strong> and it should be removed. I have now also understood that <strong>it is</strong> completely harmless to have <strong><em>C/windows/system32/wlanext.exe</em></strong> present - but <strong><em>C/windows/wmu3/wlanext.exe</em></strong> is <strong>not!</strong> ...and <strong>it should be removed</strong>. Inside the <strong><em>wmu3</em></strong> folder there's also another small application called <strong><em>ZeroConfigService.exe</em></strong> - it can also (after what I have understood) be removed - so just go ahead and <strong>remove</strong> the <strong><em>wmu3</em></strong>-folder and everything that's in it!<br/><br/><strong>W</strong>hat is <strong>quite disturbing</strong> here is that an updated Windows Defender did <strong>not</strong> give any notice about the fact that these applications were present - and active! in the system! despite, several thorough runs. Is this something Microsoft has approved?- or are they in on this? ...I'm just asking    However, another well-known applications did a great job - the <em>intruders</em> was quickly discovered and swept out!<br/><br/><strong>N</strong>ow, after these applications have been removed, my computer is no longer a heat source in the house   But I still wonder what they did here, where they've come from, and how they got in here.<br/><br/><strong>I</strong>n my search for these <em>invaders</em>, I accidentally managed to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/partly-2915725" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about PARTLY">PARTLY</a> delete a small application. No big problem, I thought - I just have to remove the rest and do a reinstall, I have everything I need - the installer and otherwise all the other stuff I got sent when it was purchased ...installation code and sn etc.<br/><br/><strong>B</strong>ut it wasn't at all that simple. The application was reinstalled in the usual way, the registry dialog provided with a code/sn and user name - and then ...Hurray! it was up and running! Now everything seemed to be back to <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/normal-1123860" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about NORMAL">NORMAL</a> again. I closed it - but to be absolutely sure that everything was really back in order, I restarted it, just to discover that it was not - I only got a new dialog for registration! - covering the application interface. So I went through the same reg-stuff once again, with the same result ...and a few more times, but no, every time I had to enter code/sn and user name etc. to get it started - and when it did, it was neither as a <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/demo-437017" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about DEMO">DEMO</a> nor a trial, but quite normal - just as it has always been. I then contacted the company I had bought the application from, and gave them the same story i have told here. From them the message was clear, everything I had done was absolutely right - now it should have run as normal. They offered generously to send me the latest version - but the result was still negative. Then I tried with another application, from another manufacturer, same procedure - but also here with the same negative result - it simply wouldn't let itself register!<br/><br/><strong>I</strong>t now seems that applications installed <strong>before</strong> I got <em>visited</em> by <strong><em>wlanext.exe</em></strong> and <strong><em>ZeroConfigService.exe</em></strong>, <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/works-17618" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about WORKS">WORKS</a> perfectly normal. But now it's simply just not <a href="https://interviewquestions.tuteehub.com/tag/possible-592355" style="font-weight:bold;" target="_blank" title="Click to know more about POSSIBLE">POSSIBLE</a> to register installed programs! So I'm left with a bad feeling that this mess is what <strong><em>ZeroConfigService.exe</em></strong> and <strong><em>wlanext.exe</em></strong> have left behind - pretty badly done! <br/><br/><strong>I</strong> have very little desire to get started with a full new installation of the OS etc. - pretty bad experience with almost endless, <strong>forced</strong> and unstable windows 10 updates would be the main reason ...no wonder I have <em>windows Update Stop!</em> installed here. <br/><br/><strong>So it's with great thanks to all I welcome both thoughts and speculations around these problems ...and for what reason I ended up getting them - and of course, suggestions on what I can do to get this Windows 10 installation fresh again.</strong><br/><br/><br/><strong><em>Eric</em></strong><br/><br/><strong>PS</strong><br/>I have tried a little with the windows 10 tools - also, the registry have been checked and defragmented with the Windows 10 Manager.<br/><br/><br/> <strong>S O L V E D !</strong> <em>...and thanx for helping out.</em></body></html>


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