Many users reported that their anti-malware tools flag the daemonupd.exe process as a malicious program related to variants of the TROJ_GEN.R01C8D4 application and the TROJ_GEN.RC1CDLQ program, which are families of Trojans and worms known to infect unprotected Windows-based computers with outdated OS security certificates and an unsecured Windows System Registry. Other users claim that their system security tools identify the daemonupd.exe process as a malware item that is distributed with components of the HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic program and the Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Carberp.q application, which are other families of Trojans and worms reported to be embedded with functions for exploiting unencrypted TCP/IP network ports of unprotected Windows-based computers, especially those with an unsecured Windows System Registry and missing or outdated OS security certificates. In both instances, these users claim that the daemonupd.exe process implements its autorun or self-activating code into the system upon its initial placement, in order to create and inject keys and entries into the unsecured Windows System Registry of the unprotected computer, and these registry strings are said to enable the daemonupd.exe malware to autoamtically initialize during system startup and to operate as a cloacked background process during system runtime. These users state that the daemonupd.exe malware is capable of exploiting unencrypted TCP/IP network ports of the unprotected computer, and is able to use these exploited system vulnerabilities to download more malicious applications unto the compromised system or to wait for directives from predesignated remote servers that are allegedly managed by the authors of the daemonupd.exe malware.

Most non-system processes that are running can be stopped because they are not involved in running your operating system. daemonupd.exe. is used by TROJ_GEN.R01C8D4 and TROJ_GEN.RC1CDLQ and HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Carberp.q, If you shut down daemonupd.exe, it will likely start again at a later time either after you restart your computer or after an application start. To stop daemonupd.exe, permanently you need to uninstall the application that runs this process which in this case is TROJ_GEN.R01C8D4 and TROJ_GEN.RC1CDLQ and HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Carberp.q, 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 daemonupd.exe

A process usually a part of an installed application such as TROJ_GEN.R01C8D4 and TROJ_GEN.RC1CDLQ and HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Carberp.q, 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 daemonupd.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 daemonupd.exe, belongs to, in this case TROJ_GEN.R01C8D4 and TROJ_GEN.RC1CDLQ and HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic and Trojan-Downloader.Win32.Carberp.q