The antispyware.exe file is an EXE application process installed in the system by the PC Defender software, which is a Windows program classified as a rogue anti-spyware application by many users. The antispyware.exe process is activated by the PC Defender software upon its initialization, in order for the antispyware.exe process to assist the PC Defender application in integrating its fake anti-spyware functionalities into the system, according to some user reports. The PC Defender software has also been reported by some users as a scareware application, because this rogue system security tool is known to flag many legitimate processes and applications as malicious programs and is also said to display exaggerated threat alerts and fake system security notifications. The antispyware.exe file is placed in the system upon the installation of the PC Defender program.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as PC Defender, 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 antispyware.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 antispyware.exe, belongs to, in this case PC Defender