What is zcengine.dll?

zcengine.dll is part of zcengine.dll and developed by zcengine according to the zcengine.dll version information.

zcengine.dll is usually located in the 'C:\WINDOWS\system32\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected zcengine.dll.

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 zcengine.dll:

PropertyValue
Product namezcengine.dll
Company namezcengine
Commentszcengine.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (c) 2015
Product version3.0.0.0
File version3.0.0.0

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

Product namezcengine.dll
Company namezcengine
Commentszcengine.dll
Legal copyrightCopyright (c) 2015
Product version3.0.0.0
File version3.0.0.0

Digital signatures [?]

zcengine.dll is not signed.

VirusTotal report

20 of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the zcengine.dll file. That's a 36% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Agnitum Riskware.ADInstaller!
AhnLab-V3 PUP/Win32.Agent
Antiy-AVL RiskWare[RiskTool:not-a-virus]/Win32.ADInstaller
Avira ADWARE/AgentCV.A.42185
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
CAT-QuickHeal Pua.Agent.015005
ClamAV Win.Adware.Adinstaller
DrWeb Adware.Superfish.268
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Packed.Komodia.E suspicious
Ikarus AdWare.HighlightSearches
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 004d5b781 )
K7GW Trojan ( 004d5b781 )
Kaspersky not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win32.ADInstaller.i
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.Komodia.WnskRST
NANO-Antivirus Riskware.Win32.ADInstaller.dyqmkf
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM30.1.Malware.Gen
Rising PE:Malware.Generic(Thunder)!1.A1C4 [F]
Symantec SAPE.Heur.b9a1
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Zillya Adware.AddLyrics.Win32.8430
20 of the 56 anti-virus programs detected the zcengine.dll file.

zcengine.dll removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove zcengine.dll with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the zcengine.dll file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that zcengine.dll 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 zcengine.dll in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the zcengine.dll 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 zcengine.dll in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    C:\WINDOWS\system32\zcengine.dll
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the zcengine.dll file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If zcengine.dll still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If zcengine.dll is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If zcengine.dll 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 zcengine.dll no longer appear in the scan result.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5ed63b2387e71a3625cfc87c16f49e0f5
SHA25670e881c5d3eba1ad5950b1806257de6ccff878e1f97fad06f0ee8c456425f72e

What will you do with zcengine.dll?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with zcengine.dll. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 2 users.

Votes
Keep0 %
0
Remove100 %
2

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with zcengine.dll. Only 2 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

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