Most antivirus programs identify VisualDiscovery.exe as malware—for instance TrendMicro identifies it as ADW_SUPERFISH, and Symantec identifies it as Adware.SuperFish.
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Description:VisualDiscovery.exe is not essential for Windows and will often cause problems. The VisualDiscovery.exe file is located in a subfolder of "C:\Program Files (x86)" (common is C:\Program Files (x86)\Lenovo\VisualDiscovery\).
Known file sizes on Windows 10/11/7 are 1,354,296 bytes (84% of all occurrences), 1,304,360 bytes or 1,348,808 bytes.
The program is not visible. VisualDiscovery.exe is not a Windows core file. It is digitally signed. There is no file information.
Therefore the technical security rating is 53% dangerous.
Uninstalling this variant:
If problems with Superfish Inc. VisualDiscovery occur, you can also go to the support area of the Similarproducts website or uninstall the program using the Control Panel ⇒ Uninstall a Program.
Important: You should check the VisualDiscovery.exe process on your PC to see if it is a threat. If VisualDiscovery.exe has changed your browser's search engine and start page, you can recover your browser's default settings as follows:
In Internet Explorer, press the key combination Alt + X to open the Tools menu.
Click Internet options.
Click the Advanced tab.
Click the Reset... button.
Enable the Delete personal settings option.
This will reset your Internet Explorer to its default settings. Your browser will start with the familiar start page and search engine—without popups, ads, cookies, but all browser add-ons are deleted too
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Make cleaning up your browser and your computer simpler and safer with Security Task Manager.
Copy chrome://settings/resetProfileSettings into your Chrome browser's address bar.
Click Reset.
Chrome will then restart with an empty start page and with Google as the default search engine—without any popups, ads, cookies, themes or extensions
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If you want to re-enable some extensions, please enter chrome://extensions/ into your Chrome browser's address bar.
Make cleaning up your browser and your computer simpler and safer with Security Task Manager.
Copy about:support into your Firefox browser's address bar.
Click Refresh Firefox.
Firefox now looks brand new. Bookmarks and saved passwords are retained, but all browser extensions and their related data are deleted
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Make cleaning up your browser and your computer simpler and safer with Security Task Manager.
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Best practices for resolving VisualDiscovery issues
The following programs have also been shown useful for a deeper analysis: ASecurity Task Manager examines the active VisualDiscovery process on your computer and clearly tells you what it is doing. A good Bantivirus tool detects whether the VisualDiscovery.exe file on your PC might be malware slowing down your system. Such unwanted programs are often not classified as viruses by other antivirus software and therefore go undetected.
A clean and tidy computer is the key requirement for avoiding PC trouble. 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 restore the original performance and remove unnecessary programs, you can 8reset your PC. Your personal files will remain intact, but any programs you installed will need to be reinstalled.
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