What is Grckm.exe?

If you have discovered the process Grckm.exe in the Task Manager and have a program called GIGABYTE Tools and Drivers installed on your computer, you do not need to do anything because this program is legitimate and, as a consequence, there is no need to remove it. If this application is using this process, you will not only see it in the Task Manager, but you should also be able to find a file Grckm.exe in %PROGRAMFILES(x86)%.

grckmIf it is not there, the possibility is high that malicious software is using the name of this file/process. Yes, malicious applications quite often borrow names of legitimate files so that they could stay undetected, so if you suspect that Grckm.exe belongs to malware installed on your computer, you must uninstall Grckm.exe as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we cannot promise that it will be enough to implement the Grckm.exe removal to fully delete malicious software from the system.

What does Grckm.exe do?

If Grckm.exe is a part of a legitimate application, i.e., GIGABYTE Tools and Drivers, there is no need to remove it because it does not do anything bad; however, we cannot say the same about it if it belongs to malicious software. If it has already turned out that it is a part of malware, it might help this bad program to work properly. It is very likely that it could not collect information about you, log your keystrokes, or show commercial advertisements without it. Of course, these are not all the activities malware can perform on your computer, so you should go to erase it as soon as possible. Start from implementing the Grckm.exe removal from your computer, but we do not think that this will be enough to erase it fully from the system because of it, most probably, has other files you know nothing about on your system too.

How did malware using Grckm.exe enter my computer?

It is still unclear what malicious application uses Grckm.exe, but it should be serious malware, malware experts say, because simple bad applications do not borrow names of legitimate files. You could have downloaded that malicious program from the web and then installed it unknowingly, or it could have been installed on your system without your knowledge next to other applications downloaded from the web. In any event, you must find and disable that malicious program active on your system. The last paragraph will tell you how to delete Grckm.exe easily and remove the rest of the files belonging to malware.

How do I remove Grckm.exe?

If you know where the malicious file is located, you can delete Grckm.exe at any time, but, unfortunately, we cannot guarantee that you will disable malware active on your system with this single step, so even if you manage to remove Grckm.exe manually, you should go to perform a system scan with an automated malware remover too to erase other files. It will check if all malicious components have been deleted. If not, it will take care of them all. Of course, you can remove Grckm.exe automatically as well.

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