There is very minimal data regarding the password.exe process. Unfortunately though, much of the information gathered about the password.exe process presents that this process is likely to be a harmful threat to the user’s computer system. Reports state that the password.exe process is involved as a part of many shady incidents in which 46% of the time, it is presented to be a threat to the user. Most information regards the process as a potential virus. However, this only happens half the time. It is still advisable, though, for the user to exercise caution as it is commonly found to be a malicious content for the user’s computer system. The process is also known as the Hard Drive Protection and it is owned by Freecom. It belongs to the software Freecom Hard Drive Protection. Since it is usually the cause of a stir for its potentiality of harm, it contains the technical security rating of 51% dangerous.

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

A process usually a part of an installed application such as Hard Drive Protection, 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 password.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 password.exe, belongs to, in this case Hard Drive Protection