The notepad.dll file has been reported to be an executable process associated with the Trojan:Win32/Opachki.A family of malicious programs. Some user reports claimed that the notepad.dll file is integrated with a set of malicious functionalities normally found in other variants of this Trojan family. Among these features is the ability to search for vulnerable backdoor system ports and exploit it by initiating TCP/IP connections through those exploited network ports, in order to start downloading other malicious programs from predesignated Web servers and opening these ports for possible remote access by the authors of the notepad.dll process. There were also user reports stating that the malicious programs usually downloaded by the notepad.dll file are commonly integrated with the ability to gather private data stored in the system and Internet browsing information from the default Web browser, and these malicious programs can then transmit this collected data to predesignated servers on the Internet. The notepad.dll file has also been reported to be capable of initializing during system startup and operating in the background during system runtime without the user's consent, because of the entries and keys it can create and enter into the Windows System Registry of the infected system at the time of its penetration into the Windows-based computer.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. notepad.dll. is used by Trojan:Win32/Opachki.A, If you shut down notepad.dll, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop notepad.dll, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is Trojan:Win32/Opachki.A, 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 notepad.dll

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Trojan:Win32/Opachki.A, 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 notepad.dll. 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 notepad.dll, belongs to, in this case Trojan:Win32/Opachki.A