How to remove an Wow error

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Wow.exe file information

The process known as World of Warcraft or World of Warcraft Retail or Client belongs to software World of Warcraft or Auctioneer AddOns or Half-Life (version 2) or Client or Tony Hawk's Underground (version 2) or Nero 7 Ultra Edition by Blizzard Entertainment (blizzard.com).

Description: Wow.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files". Known file sizes on Windows 7/XP are 4,775,986 bytes (11% of all occurrences), 8,116,224 bytes and 36 more variants.
The program has a visible window. Wow.exe is not a Windows core file. The application uses ports to connect to a LAN or the Internet. Wow.exe is able to record inputs and monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 18% dangerous, however also read the users reviews.
If there are any problems with Wow.exe, you can uninstall World of Warcraft or Auctioneer AddOns from your computer using the Control Panel applet "Add/Remove programs".

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If Wow.exe is located in a subfolder of C:\, the security rating is 16% dangerous. The file size is 8,116,224 bytes (16% of all occurrences), 4,775,986 bytes and 16 more variants. The program has a visible window. Wow.exe is not a Windows core file. The process uses ports to connect to a LAN or the Internet. Wow.exe is able to record inputs and monitor applications.
If there are any problems with Wow.exe, you can uninstall World of Warcraft or Tony Hawk's Underground 2 from your computer using the Control Panel applet "Add/Remove programs".

If Wow.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Documents and Settings", the security rating is 16% dangerous. The file size is 11,196,560 bytes (33% of all occurrences), 5,238,834 bytes or 12,682,896 bytes. The program has a visible window. The process uses ports to connect to a LAN or the Internet. The file is not a Windows system file. Wow.exe is certified by a trustworthy company. Wow.exe is able to record inputs and monitor applications.

If Wow.exe is located in the folder C:\Windows\System32, the security rating is 64% dangerous. The file size is 24,576 bytes.

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as Wow.exe, particularly when located in the c:\windows or c:\windows\system32 folder. Therefore, you should check the Wow.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. We recommend Security Task Manager for verifying your computer's security. This was one of the Top Download Picks of The Washington Post and PC World.

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User Comments

Its a game
Mehe

Its the exe file from World of Warcraft, an online Game
Manuel melo

FriendlyWeb properties: • Allows remote user connection; Connects itself to the internet; Stays resident in background
k

Friendly web spyware
k

Not dangerous at all.. It's just a game.
Kevin

It is a MMORPG, I play it all the time, it is harmless.
Tirisfallen (further information)

installing wow.exe
renol

trying to delete it
dawn

wow.exe is a process used for running old application that usually run on a 16 bit environment. It's required for those applications to run properly.
The Professor (further information)

it can scan your running processes so blizzard can know if you are using hacks or whatsoever
soo

Process used for running application that run on a 16 bit environment(windows). Also used by mailware (friendlyweb)and world of warcraft.
Joe

Its a great game
Bec

it's world of warcraft's exe file... (wow= a game)
robin

Its a game only dangerous by addiction, else harmless.
WoW freak

takes over wife's computer. Neither wife nor anyone else has installed WOW on this machine. In fact no one n the house plays it. MALWARE.
Jim

If you have World of Warcraft installed, this is the main executable. If you don't there's no reason to keep it.

When my computer is acting sluggish, 9 times out of 10, this WOW.EXE junk will be running in Windows Task Manager. As soon as I turn it off, I regain control of the PC. It pops up from out of the blue. I don't do games on my computer, so I would say it's being used as spyware, or game players or whoever may be using it to incorporate my CPU into a computer array ? A complete search of my HDD turns up NO FILE named WOW.EXE . A registry search turned up one instance of classified as an MRU. This tells me it's coming in over the web, and is being used by someone, either for spying, or CPU use.
Billy Bob

its windows on windows process for programs that use windows 16bit
kris

Root Virus in Registry-Hidden in sys-in--
RB

Its World of Warcraft! It comes up when up play it... duh
Zak

It's a trojan. Found it in Temporary Internet Files. Never loaded World of Warcraft.
RexRay

World of Warcraft executable

Mine removes itself when you stop the process- Meaning it is trying to keep from being detected/examined. I have found this file twice- It slows down, I start looking for odd processes. When the process gets killed, there is no file left on the drive, however there are registry entries.
Ozzy- (CISSP)

It's the executable that starts the game World of Warcraft (over 9 million players worldwide). Harmless!
Mrs Smith (further information)

WoW.exe is used to launch previous patches from the game World of Warcraft.
kl

"Windows on Windows" (wow).exe is a process to allow backwards compatability with older windows (16bit) programmes
Mike (further information)

If you do not play World of Warcraft, wow.exe is an Active X Spyware script run by companies to get your information when you register software. ARCsoft is infamous for it. unfortuantely it does slow down your computer sending information to the companies.

Its a file used for some WoW private servers dont reslly need for the real WoW tho
Dmarn

If you do not have World of Warcraft™ installed on your computer, a process with this name might be an unauthorized application designed to harm your computer/files. Otherwise, it's just the process that runs World of Warcraft on your computer.
Haukeland

WOW.EXE may be a login/password grabber trojan.
Shadow Wolf (further information)

wow.exe is not always world of warcraft. I did a fresh install and after a few weeks, wow.exe was running in background. I never played WOW. Something is wrong with my PC because it's sluggish. Killing wow.exe doesnt really do anything though.
warfinge

There is in fact a trojan that uses the moniker wow.exe, it should be able to be handled by most antivirus software and is found outside of the World of Warcraft folder found in "/program files". Typically either in root "/c" or in "/system"
ES

It's a backdoor trojan; you need to use the link and get this off of your machine! It steals passwords!
Anthony (further information)

is a game
Amon

WoW.exe is the file used to launch and run the game World of warcraft.
Nardon

its windows on window.... if youre running on 64bit system and try to run 32 bit apps then wow..emulate it for you
ady

it says its a malware virus which is a trojan
zak

wow = windows on windows (used for older windowsapplications)
Mikey

Summary: Average user rating of Wow.exe: based on 53 votes with 38 reviews.

26 users think Wow.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. 5 users think it's probably harmless. 7 users think it's neither essential nor dangerous. 5 users suspect danger. 10 users think Wow.exe is dangerous and recommend removing it. 4 users doesn't grade Wow.exe ("not sure about it").

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