what the hell is this i have no hola.exe
Hola vpn is a adware vpn app that most Likely came installed on your computer through a software bundle. Programs like process hacker, a alternative to windows task manager, come with ad supported installers such as installcore or opencandy. These installers may try to trick you into installing adware or other malware via “optional offers” that install suspicious software like adware or cracked antivirus software. To avoid this, use the custom install option when possible or avoid programs that use these installers.
But my pc is a custom built and I nerver used hila vpn
Have you ever downloaded any app program from the internet? If you haven’t, you might want to reinstall windows or do a virus scan
Yeah but I looked at my hole pc and nothing there that notification comes up once a day very day it’s been doing for 12 months we have look Into it
Open powershell as an administrator and type or copy/paste the following lines individually. The first will tell you if it’s running currently - it may only run once per day, trying to download an update (or malicious instructions, I’m unfamiliar with this particular one), the second will tell you where the application exists - it may be in multiple places. Mind the spaces carefully.
Get-process hola
Get-childitem hola.exe -path c:\ -recurse -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue
As a very general recommendation for people that aren’t particularly tech savvy, apps that aren’t listed in add/remove programs are quite possibly malicious. Legitimate apps don’t make any effort to hide themselves.
thanks for your help
Likely because there’s a service running (in reference to the file being in use - I had already typed a response). If you just delete the file you’ll likely get multiple errors instead of the block message, but you do need to remove it because it looks to be a malicious data-stealing browser and/or VPN.
I don’t have the time or patience to type out on my phone how to check for each piece and remove it manually, even though I personally won’t use uninstallers of malware - sorry, just being honest, pieces get dumped in several places.
Here is a fairly simple guide that uses the uninstaller. Hopefully if the uninstaller does anything shady, BD will block it.
Also worth checking your scheduled tasks to ensure it doesn’t leave a task. Most of these data stealing browsers built on chromium register a scheduled task to update, just like Chrome does. Be careful if you do go search, don’t delete any you aren’t sure of, if you find one referencing Hola, delete it.