{"id":361,"date":"2014-05-01T13:18:25","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T13:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=361"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:55","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:55","slug":"remove-urlguard-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-urlguard-exe\/","title":{"rendered":"urlguard.exe is Gen.Variant.Symmi &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you spot\u00a0<a title=\"urlguard.exe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/urlguard.exe-125660\/\">urlguard.exe<\/a> in the Windows Task Manager? Then you have something called\u00a0<strong>Gen.Variant.Symmi<\/strong> running on your machine.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-364\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-task-manager.png\" alt=\"urlguard.exe in the task manager\" width=\"552\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-task-manager.png 552w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-task-manager-300x92.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 552px) 100vw, 552px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>urlguard.exe<\/strong> is currently detected by 7 of the 52 anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal:<img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-363\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-symmi.png\" alt=\"urlguard.exe is Gen:Variant.Symmi.9161\" width=\"635\" height=\"626\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-symmi.png 635w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-symmi-300x295.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 635px) 100vw, 635px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>You can <strong>remove urlguard.exe<\/strong> with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a> by selecting the urlguard.exe file and registry startup entry:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-365\" style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe_.png\" alt=\"urlguard.exe startup in registry\" width=\"787\" height=\"272\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe_.png 787w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe_-300x103.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 787px) 100vw, 787px\" \/><a style=\"line-height: 1.5;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-process.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-362\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-process.png\" alt=\"urlguard.exe process\" width=\"789\" height=\"342\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-process.png 789w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/urlguard.exe-process-300x130.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 789px) 100vw, 789px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you to get rid of urlguard.exe.<\/p>\n<p>How did you get <strong>urlguard.exe<\/strong> on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you spot\u00a0urlguard.exe in the Windows Task Manager? Then you have something called\u00a0Gen.Variant.Symmi running on your machine. urlguard.exe is currently detected by 7 of the 52 anti-virus programs over at VirusTotal: You can remove urlguard.exe with FreeFixer by selecting the urlguard.exe file and registry startup entry: Hope that helped you to get rid of urlguard.exe. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-urlguard-exe\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">urlguard.exe is Gen.Variant.Symmi &#8211; Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[16],"tags":[48,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":663,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361\/revisions\/663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}