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What is Adobe CEF Helper.exe?

The genuine Adobe CEF Helper.exe file is a software component of Adobe Creative Cloud by .
Adobe Creative Cloud is a collection of software tools developed by Adobe for video editing, graphic design, photography, web development, and cloud services. Adobe CEF Helper.exe is the helper module that belongs to a web browser engine based on the the Chromium core. This process is known to cause problems in Creative Cloud version 1.1.2.232 and below. Updating the application may rectify the problem.

Adobe Creative Cloud is a software as a service (SaaS) offering, and is delivered through a monthly or annual subscription through the Internet. It is a replacement over the Adobe Creative Suite. Creative Cloud includes access to Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom, Dreamviewer, Acrobat, Premier Pro, After Effects, Flash, InDesign, Illustrator, and many more applications. Several other services such a subscription to Behance, Adobe Story Plus, and Spark, are also provided.

Adobe Systems develops software products for web design, video editing, web hosting, image editing, servers management, as well as popular file formats such as Flash and PDF. The company was instrumental in the development of the desktop publishing industry, and received early success thanks to a licensing of their PostScript page description language to Apple. Established in 1982, Adobe currently employs over 15,000 people worldwide, and generated over $5 billion in annual revenue. Adobe is currently headquartered in San Jose, California.

Adobe CEF Helper stands for Adobe Chromium Embedded Framework Helper

The .exe extension on a filename indicates an executable file. Executable files may, in some cases, harm your computer. Therefore, please read below to decide for yourself whether the Adobe CEF Helper.exe on your computer is a Trojan that you should remove, or whether it is a file belonging to the Windows operating system or to a trusted application.

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Adobe CEF Helper.exe file information

The process known as Adobe CEF Helper belongs to software Adobe Flash Professional (version CS6) or Adobe Photoshop (version CS6) or Adobe Photoshop CC or Adobe Creative Suite (version 6 Master Collection) or Adobe Dreamweaver (version CS6) by Adobe (www.adobe.com) or Adobe Systems (www.adobe.com).

Description: Adobe CEF Helper.exe is not essential for the Windows OS and causes relatively few problems. Adobe CEF Helper.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files\Common Files"—common is C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Adobe Desktop Common\HEX\. Known file sizes on Windows 10/11/7 are 3,802,168 bytes (13% of all occurrences), 1,205,488 bytes and 19 more variants. file.net/process/adobe%20cef%20helper.exe.html 
Adobe CEF Helper.exe is digitally signed. The file is not a Windows system file. The program has no visible window. Adobe CEF Helper.exe is able to monitor applications. Therefore the technical security rating is 35% dangerous; but you should also compare this rating with the user reviews.

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If Adobe CEF Helper.exe is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files", the security rating is 25% dangerous. The file size is 490,160 bytes (57% of all occurrences), 419,704 bytes, 490,360 bytes or 395,120 bytes. It is not a Windows system file. The program is not visible. Adobe CEF Helper.exe is certified by a trustworthy company.

Uninstalling this variant: In the event of any problems with Adobe CEF Helper.exe, you could also uninstall the program using the Control Panel ⇒ Uninstall a Program ⇒ Adobe Creative Suite 6 Master Collection or Adobe Flash Professional CS6 or visit the vendor's support site.

Important: Some malware camouflages itself as Adobe CEF Helper.exe, particularly when located in the C:\Windows or C:\Windows\System32 folder. Therefore, you should check the Adobe CEF Helper.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

A program belonging to Adobe Creative Cloud. Crashes often due to memory address errors (as of 27 June 2017).
  Ho Wing Yip  
It constantly writes and reades data, even when all Adobe apps are closed. In a 24 hour period, Adobe CEF Helper read and write 6 gigagytes of data, and i did not use a single Adobe application or update anything, literally just browsing the web, email, notes. You can see this in Process Explorer. However, it comes with Adobe apps so you need it. CreativeCloud.exe does the exact same thing, reads and writes data... what is this data though? That's about 12 gigabytes of unexplainable noise keeping the CPU and drive awake. This happens everyday. You can close this app though, and continue using Adobe apps like Ai, Ps, Id...
  Jonas Devon  
My work PC stopped working. Upon restart before connecting to VPN or starting any application, CPU was overloaded and memory didn't go lower than 70%. Most of memory was taken by Adobe CEF Helper.exe. I killed all Adobe CEF processes and without rebooting my PC it's back to normal speed now. I will contact my IT to remove this garbage from start up services on my machine.
   
Habe das Programm im Taskmanager auf "Task beenden" gestellt. Es öffnet sich jedoch von selbst wieder. Gleichzeitig zieht es Unmengen an Arbeitsspeicher und CPU-Platz. Genauso wie Creative Cloud von Adobe. Wenn ich dann lese,wie viele Daten gespeichert werden in dem Programm, obwohl ich nichts mit Adobe mache, ist das für mich eine "spyware" eines offiziellen Softwaranbieters, der mich nicht fragt, ob das ich will und die kein Mensch braucht, wenn man nicht mit Adobe arbeiten muss.
  DS  

Summary: Average user rating of Adobe CEF Helper.exe: based on 2 votes with 4 user comments. One user thinks Adobe CEF Helper.exe is essential for Windows or an installed application. One user thinks it's neither essential nor dangerous. 2 users don't grade Adobe CEF Helper.exe ("not sure about it").


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Best practices for resolving Adobe CEF Helper issues

A clean and tidy computer is the key requirement for avoiding problems with Adobe CEF Helper. This means running a scan for malware, cleaning your hard drive using 1cleanmgr and 2sfc /scannow, 3uninstalling programs that you no longer need, checking for Autostart programs (using 4msconfig) and enabling Windows' 5Automatic Update. Always remember to perform periodic backups, or at least to set restore points.

Should you experience an actual problem, try to recall the last thing you did, or the last thing you installed before the problem appeared for the first time. Use the 6resmon command to identify the processes that are causing your problem. Even for serious problems, rather than reinstalling Windows, you are better off repairing of your installation or executing the 7DISM.exe /Online /Cleanup-image /Restorehealth command. This allows you to repair the operating system without losing data.

To get your computer running as fast as it did on day one, you can 8reset your PC. Your personal files will remain intact, but any programs you installed will need to be reinstalled.

To help you analyze the Adobe CEF Helper.exe process on your computer, the following programs have proven to be helpful: ASecurity Task Manager displays all running Windows tasks, including embedded hidden processes, such as keyboard and browser monitoring or Autostart entries. A unique security risk rating indicates the likelihood of the process being potential spyware, malware or a Trojan. A good Bantivirus software detects and removes sleeping spyware, adware, Trojans, keyloggers, malware and trackers from your hard drive.



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