What is Monitor.exe?

Monitor.exe is part of Advanced SystemCare and developed by IObit according to the Monitor.exe version information.

Monitor.exe's description is "Performance Monitor"

Monitor.exe is digitally signed by IObit Information Technology.

Monitor.exe is usually located in the 'C:\Program Files (x86)\IObit\Advanced SystemCare\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected Monitor.exe.

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 Monitor.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameAdvanced SystemCare
Company nameIObit
File descriptionPerformance Monitor
Original filenameMonitor.exe
Legal copyright© IObit. All rights reserved.
Legal trademarkIObit
Product version13.0.0.0
File version13.2.0.209

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

Product nameAdvanced SystemCare
Company nameIObit
File descriptionPerformance Monitor
Original filenameMonitor.exe
Legal copyright© IObit. All rights reserved.
Legal trademarkIObit
Product version13.0.0.0
File version13.2.0.209

Digital signatures [?]

Monitor.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameIObit Information Technology
Certificate issuer nameSymantec Class 3 SHA256 Code Signing CA
Certificate serial number5cd0502920c27eeaec2a184d0452e53a

VirusTotal report

3 of the 72 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Monitor.exe file. That's a 4% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
DrWeb Program.Unwanted.2520
eGambit PUP.Optional.IObit
GData Win32.Application.iObit.B
3 of the 72 anti-virus programs detected the Monitor.exe file.

Sandbox Report

The following information was gathered by executing the file inside Cuckoo Sandbox.

Summary

Successfully executed process in sandbox.

Generic

[
    {
        "process_path": "C:\\Windows\\System32\\lsass.exe",
        "process_name": "lsass.exe",
        "pid": 476,
        "summary": {},
        "first_seen": 1585288385.34375,
        "ppid": 376
    }
]

Signatures

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        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The executable contains unknown PE section names indicative of a packer (could be a false positive)",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "section",
                "ioc": ".itext",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_features"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 1,
        "families": [],
        "description": "The file contains an unknown PE resource name possibly indicative of a packer",
        "severity": 1,
        "marks": [
            {
                "category": "resource name",
                "ioc": "MAD",
                "type": "ioc",
                "description": null
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "pe_unknown_resource_name"
    },
    {
        "markcount": 13,
        "families": [],
        "description": "Foreign language identified in PE resource",
        "severity": 2,
        "marks": [
            {
                "name": "RT_CURSOR",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0022d280",
                "filetype": "Hitachi SH big-endian COFF object, not stripped",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000010ac"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_CURSOR",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0022d280",
                "filetype": "Hitachi SH big-endian COFF object, not stripped",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x000010ac"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0023b6e4",
                "filetype": "GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000468"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0023b6e4",
                "filetype": "GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000468"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0023b6e4",
                "filetype": "GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000468"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0023b6e4",
                "filetype": "GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000468"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0023b6e4",
                "filetype": "GLS_BINARY_LSB_FIRST",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000468"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_CURSOR",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0034f8a0",
                "filetype": "MS Windows cursor resource - 1 icon, 32x256, hotspot @1x32",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_CURSOR",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0034f8a0",
                "filetype": "MS Windows cursor resource - 1 icon, 32x256, hotspot @1x32",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000014"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_GROUP_ICON",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0034f8b4",
                "filetype": "MS Windows icon resource - 5 icons, 64x64",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x0000004c"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_VERSION",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x0034f900",
                "filetype": "data",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000324"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_MANIFEST",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x003503d4",
                "filetype": "XML 1.0 document, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000352"
            },
            {
                "name": "RT_MANIFEST",
                "language": "LANG_CHINESE",
                "offset": "0x003503d4",
                "filetype": "XML 1.0 document, ASCII text, with CRLF line terminators",
                "sublanguage": "SUBLANG_CHINESE_SIMPLIFIED",
                "type": "generic",
                "size": "0x00000352"
            }
        ],
        "references": [],
        "name": "origin_langid"
    }
]

Yara

The Yara rules did not detect anything in the file.

Network

{
    "tls": [],
    "udp": [
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "192.168.56.255",
            "offset": 546,
            "time": 3.079050064086914,
            "dport": 137,
            "sport": 137
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5074,
            "time": 3.0491878986358643,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 51001
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5402,
            "time": 1.0802009105682373,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53595
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 5730,
            "time": 3.0562338829040527,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 53848
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6058,
            "time": 1.5853710174560547,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 54255
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "224.0.0.252",
            "offset": 6386,
            "time": -0.08563113212585449,
            "dport": 5355,
            "sport": 55314
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 6714,
            "time": 1.1862740516662598,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 1900
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 18562,
            "time": 1.1103439331054688,
            "dport": 3702,
            "sport": 49152
        },
        {
            "src": "192.168.56.101",
            "dst": "239.255.255.250",
            "offset": 26946,
            "time": 3.1254959106445312,
            "dport": 1900,
            "sport": 53598
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    ],
    "dns_servers": [],
    "http": [],
    "icmp": [],
    "smtp": [],
    "tcp": [],
    "smtp_ex": [],
    "mitm": [],
    "hosts": [],
    "pcap_sha256": "51b65402ddbb823fdaa8d91c82e1225566076aa005d8ace08c4d0706e077e5ba",
    "dns": [],
    "http_ex": [],
    "domains": [],
    "dead_hosts": [],
    "sorted_pcap_sha256": "0a2a46cfe91f36758fd0918874c6716111c6af6d502e3a18ee57c614ab48bc81",
    "irc": [],
    "https_ex": []
}

Screenshots

Screenshot from the sandboxScreenshot from the sandbox

Monitor.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove Monitor.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the Monitor.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that Monitor.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

  1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
  2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  3. When the scan is finished, locate Monitor.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the Monitor.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate Monitor.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    C:\Program Files (x86)\IObit\Advanced SystemCare\Monitor.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the Monitor.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If Monitor.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If Monitor.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If Monitor.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
  8. Restart your computer.
  9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that Monitor.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5aee06f2e8929252c4db4496fb02ce588
SHA256d6d1feefabbb848463e3001d282c82b6d56659ea586852734b08a8aa1d2a5c0b

Error Messages

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

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

monitor.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.

Performance Monitor has stopped working.

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

monitor.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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