Application.exe Has Stopped Working

Users should watch out for the fictitious Application.exe Has Stopped Working warning. Apparently, it may show up after installing some untrustworthy program, for example, a potentially unwanted application, an adware application, a browser hijacker, etc. Therefore, the message’s appearance might signal it is time to clean up the computer from all the threats that could have accumulated over the time. If you continue reading this text, we will tell you how to recognize the fictitious Application.exe Has Stopped Working notification. Besides, we will place instructions explaining how you could remove suspicious programs related to this scam manually, although it might be faster to clean the system with a reliable security tool. In any case, if you need any additional help, do not forget you can leave us a message in the comments section below.

It is easy to imagine that inexperienced users could fall for this scam because the notification created by hackers look almost exactly the same as the one shown by Windows. The main thing suggesting the Application.exe Has Stopped Working is not genuine is the presented telephone number. According to our specialists who researched this suspicious message, the number (e.g., +1-844-284-8623) might be different for separate users. It might be because the fake alert could be spread through a few different channels and with separate threats. What’s more the notification may claim it is free to call the given number. However, we would not trust this piece of information because it is entirely possible the scammers seek to get money from less experienced users by merely maintaining the conversation for as long as possible.

Furthermore, the creators of fictitious Application.exe Has Stopped Working warning could try other ways to extort or steal money from users who call them. For example, they may claim the user need to purchase a particular security tool to fix the issue, or they could offer to first it remotely for a fee. In reality, there is nothing wrong with the computer, except there might be potentially dangerous software on it. Still, you can solve this problem on your own without the help of technicians, overpriced software or services, and so on. Thus, if you are seeing fictitious Application.exe Has Stopped Working notification; you should try to close it and to stop it from appearing again we would recommend finding the threat related to it.

The untrustworthy application showing the suspicious warning could be a recently downloaded extension or any other tool downloaded from torrent or other doubtful file-sharing web pages. As we said earlier, there are two options to choose from if you do not want to see the fake Application.exe Has Stopped Working message again. The first one is to reset the default browser and remove new tools that do not look trustworthy. In case, all of them look reliable to you; we would advise reading some reviews on the Internet to make sure you did not install any programs that only pretend to be useful or legitimate. Once you find the program possibly showing the fictitious alert you could uninstall it through Control Panel as it is explained in the instructions added at the end of the article.

An easier way to identify threats would probably be scanning the computer with a reliable antimalware tool of your preferences. This way you would know how many doubtful tools there are and you could erase them all at once by just clicking the deletion button. Lastly, to keep away from various threats and similar scams it is advisable to be more cautious while downloading software or other content from suspicious web pages. Also, do not forget that the antimalware tool may not be able to recognize threats if you do not update it or keep it disabled.