Poweliks, on the other hand, looks like one of Google Chrome's processes (it has the same name and icon), but opens dozens of such processes and uses almost all CPU resources, thereby making the system unusable.
These processes, however, occupy a small percentage of overall system resources. This browser opens a number of these processes in the Task Manager (the more tabs you open, the more ' Chrome.exe (32 bit)' processes are executed). ' Chrome.exe (32 bit)' is a regular process run by Google Chrome. The system thus becomes unusable (applications continually crash due to lack of resources, screen freezes, and so on).
Cyber criminals disguise this malware as a ' Chrome.exe (32 bit)' (or, rarely, ' dllhost.exe' or ' cmmon32.exe') process in Task Manager (why it is called Chrome.exe virus).ĭevelopers use Poweliks to generate fraudulent advertising revenue - this malware is designed to generate intrusive online advertisements (coupons, banners, pop-ups, etc.) In addition, Poweliks uses virtually all computer resources. Chrome.exe virus is a generic name that refers to the Poweliks trojan.
