The Dynamic-Link Library process file, card.dll (version 5.2.2000.17) is part of the product: Semc.Mobile.Computing.Pcsw.card as created by the Company Sony Ericsson United States (SEUS), which is also known as, Alcohol (version 120%) that is developed by Alcohol Soft Development Team. TrendMicro regards the process file as Troj_DELF.ws, and Microsoft as Trojan: Win32/Boaxxe.I or Trojan: Win32/Boaxxe.B. The process file card.dll is not a Windows core file, and is neither a system file. It has no visible window and is considered not blocked by a personal firewall since it is regarded as a Browser Helper Object (BHO), it is not only used by Adware and spyware, it is also read to be by the firewall as the browser itself. The process file automatically executes each time the Internet browser starts with a unique ID of 5CD57548-1296-483D-A110-9D581294E013 or 3CFCE4A3-053A-49AB-9C29-CD84A2AE38DB with 5 other variants. The process file is found to be located in folder C:\Windows\System 32 with the directory %PROGRAMFILE%\Sony Ericsson\Sony Ericsson Wireless Manager 5. On Windows 7/XP, the file size is 104,448 bytes on 20% of all incidences, 103,424 bytes, 123,904 bytes, 54,480 bytes or 96,250 bytes.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Alcohol, 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 card.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 card.dll, belongs to, in this case Alcohol