{"id":56496,"date":"2016-03-29T22:56:29","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T19:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/how-to-remove-malware\/remove-vulkaninfo-exe.htm"},"modified":"2016-09-20T11:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T08:07:58","slug":"remove-vulkaninfo-exe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/suspicious\/remove-vulkaninfo-exe.htm","title":{"rendered":"What is vulkaninfo.exe? Should I remove Vulkaninfo.exe malware?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertAbove\" style=\"padding: 0px;\"><\/div><h1>What is vulkaninfo.exe?<\/h1>\n<p>There are a lot of files detected with name Vulkaninfo.exe.<\/p>\n<p>The most popular are:<br \/>\nC:\\Program Files (x86)\\VulkanRT\\1.0.3.0\\Vulkaninfo.exe.<br \/>\nc:\\windows\\system32\\Vulkaninfo.exe.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/s1eOdqy6O-A?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><b>VULKANINFO.EXE<\/b> (64-bit file)<br \/>\nMD5: B14FF3A750CDBA33378C4A549B585DFD<br \/>\nSHA1: 870A26EC FCF37677 D07661B8 10A6383B EA0F857B<br \/>\nSHA256: 746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d<\/p>\n<p>File Size: 45 848<\/p>\n<p>File names:<br \/>\nvulkaninfo-1-1-0-3-1.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo-$_0_.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo-1-1-0-3-1.exe<br \/>\nvulkaninfo.exe<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Signer: <a class=\"expand-data text-bold\" href=\"https:\/\/virustotal.com\/en\/file\/746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d\/analysis\/#\">LunarG<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><strong>VirusTotal: 0\/56<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/virustotal.com\/en\/file\/746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d\/analysis\/\">https:\/\/virustotal.com\/en\/file\/746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d\/analysis\/<\/a><\/p>\n<h3><strong>This file is 100% clean!<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Yes. Vulkaninfo.exe is not malware related.<\/\/p><div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertMiddle\"><\/div><h2>But how did you get VulkanInfo.exe on your computer?<\/h2>\n<p>Vulkan, by design, is a very low\u00ad-level API that provides applications direct control over GPU acceleration with minimized CPU overhead and efficient multi\u00ad-threaded performance.<\/p>\n<p>Vulkan is a cross\u00ad-platform API that supports a range of devices including desktop, mobile, and console. The Vulkan loader and validation layers are canonical pieces that are critical in achieving this cross-\u00adplatform compatibility. These components are open source, and you can choose to build them.<\/p>\n<p>More info: <a href=\"http:\/\/lunarg.com\/vulkan-sdk\/faq\/\">http:\/\/lunarg.com\/vulkan-sdk\/faq\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>VulkanInfo.exe is installed with updates of video drivers: NVIDIA, Intel, ATI.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Is VulkanInfo.exe necessary for my PC?<\/h2>\n<p>No. Vulkan is an additional component for graphic applications used Vulkan SDK.<br \/>\nYour PC will work without Vulkan as well.<\/p>\n<h2>What should you do if you have VulkanInfo.exe not signed by Lunarg?<\/h2>\n<p><strong>It is 99% that this vulkaninfo.exe is fake and malware related.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Check your file using Virustotal and remove vulkaninfo.exe from your PC.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertBelow\" style=\"padding: 0px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is vulkaninfo.exe? There are a lot of files detected with name Vulkaninfo.exe. The most popular are: C:\\Program Files (x86)\\VulkanRT\\1.0.3.0\\Vulkaninfo.exe. c:\\windows\\system32\\Vulkaninfo.exe. VULKANINFO.EXE (64-bit file) MD5: B14FF3A750CDBA33378C4A549B585DFD SHA1: 870A26EC FCF37677 D07661B8 10A6383B EA0F857B SHA256: 746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d File Size: 45 848 File names: vulkaninfo-1-1-0-3-1.exe vulkaninfo-$_0_.exe vulkaninfo.exe vulkaninfo.exe vulkaninfo.exe vulkaninfo-1-1-0-3-1.exe vulkaninfo.exe Signer: LunarG VirusTotal: 0\/56 https:\/\/virustotal.com\/en\/file\/746365cb68f65643cd97a4bd6ea54f52087e611634a19e9e911e274ab609a03d\/analysis\/ This file is [&hellip;]<br \/><a style=\"color: #42A2CE\" href=\"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/suspicious\/remove-vulkaninfo-exe.htm\"><u>More&#8230;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7506],"tags":[46725],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56496"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}