The guardxservice.exe file is the process called GuardX Service used by the application Ikarus Service Utilities created by Ikarus Software GmbH. This is not a visible process. The file has a digital signature certified by VeriSign Time Stamping Services. It is not a system process. It can monitor applications. Ikarus Virus Utilities is an antivirus software that provides protection from malicious codes, dialers, viruses, Trojans, worms and other threats. It has the Guard to remind you of areas that you have not included in your scan. It allows you adjust your level of protection by ticking or unticking the checkboxes. The software symbol will turn red to warn you that the system protection is turned off. Its Scan feature allows either manual or automatic scanning. It has preset scans including fast system scan to scan Windows installation directory, system partition to scan the drive where you installed the operating system, whole computer and removable media to scan all drives. It offers E-mail protection and automatic updates of virus database and software.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. guardxservice.exe. is used by Ikarus Virus Utilities, If you shut down guardxservice.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop guardxservice.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Ikarus Virus Utilities, from your system.

After uninstalling applications it is a good idea to scan you Windows registry for any left over traces of applications. Registry Reviver by ReviverSoft is a great tool for doing this.

The ReviverSoft experts have not yet reviewed guardxservice.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Ikarus Virus Utilities, or your operating system that is responsible for running in functions of that application. Some application require that they have processes running all the time so they can do things such as check for updates or notify you when you get an instant message. Some poorly written applications have many processes that run that may not be required and take up valuable processing power within your computer.

We have not received any complaint about this process having higher than normal impact on PC performance. If you have had bad experiences with it please let us know in a comment below and we will investigate it further.

The first thing you should do if guardxservice.exe. is causing errors on your computer is to run a Windows registry scan with Registry Reviver If you are still seeing errors after this you should uninstall the program that guardxservice.exe, belongs to, in this case Ikarus Virus Utilities