{"id":62293,"date":"2016-09-20T15:30:20","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T12:30:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/?p=62293"},"modified":"2016-09-28T17:44:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-28T14:44:17","slug":"local-appdata-cef-remove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/not-a-virus\/browser\/local-appdata-cef-remove.htm","title":{"rendered":"What is %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF? How dangerous is CEF? How to remove CEF?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertAbove\" style=\"padding: 0px;\"><\/div><h1>What is %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF?<\/h1>\n<p>Some people found\u00a0 %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF on their PCs. AdwCleaner detects this folder as malicious.<\/p>\n<p>But usually %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF is a folder for storing data created by applications using CEF.<\/p>\n<p>The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications:<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/chromiumembedded\/cef\">https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/chromiumembedded\/cef<\/a><\/p>\n<h2>How dangerous is CEF?<\/h2>\n<p>Usually CEF folder contains USER DATA subfolder. It also contains subfolder related to the CEF applications.<\/p>\n<p>My verdict: <strong>%LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF cannot be marked as malicious<\/strong>, because it is only a container for sub-folders. You do not delete Program Files if one sub-folder is bad.<\/\/p><div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertMiddle\"><\/div><h2>How to remove CEF malware?<\/h2>\n<p>Some CEF applications may contain adware\/spyware etc. In this case I suggest you to delete a subfolder related to the malicious application.<br \/>\n<strong>Some legitimate application like Steam, Google Widevine use CEF.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Be careful to avoid damage your PC!<br \/>\nYou can always check your PC for adware\/malware\/TRojans\/spyware using <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a title=\"UnHackMe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.unhackme.com\">UnHackMe<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><\/h2>\n<div class=\"wpInsert wpInsertInPostMy wpInsertBelow\" style=\"padding: 0px;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF? Some people found\u00a0 %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF on their PCs. AdwCleaner detects this folder as malicious. But usually %LOCAL APPDATA%\\CEF is a folder for storing data created by applications using CEF. The Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF) is a simple framework for embedding Chromium-based browsers in other applications: https:\/\/bitbucket.org\/chromiumembedded\/cef How dangerous is CEF? Usually [&hellip;]<br \/><a style=\"color: #42A2CE\" href=\"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/not-a-virus\/browser\/local-appdata-cef-remove.htm\"><u>More&#8230;<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8480],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62293"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greatis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}