What is Csrss EXE? A User-mode portion of the Win32 subsystem; Win32.sys is the kernel-mode portion. Csrss stands for Client/Server Run-Time Subsystem, and is an essential subsystem that must be running at all times. Csrss is responsible for console windows, creating and/or deleting threads, and implementing some portions of the 16-bit virtual MS-DOS environment
CSRSS.EXE process multiple threads to carry out Windows tasks as requested by users. Windows can cause a “Blue Screen of Death” if you terminate this process. This fact explains why certain Trojan applications and spyware disguise themselves as the CSRSS.EXE file so it is more difficult to detect. The Trojan version of the CSRSS.EXE file is used by various keyloggers, such as Beyond Keylogger .
Best Way to Remove
1.Configure your Windows display hidden files and protected operating system files by going to the Control Panel “Folder Options.” Go there by clicking the Start menu and going to “Run” and typing “control folders” without quotes.
If you are using Windows Vista or 7, hold the Windows key and press the letter “R” on your keyboard to pop up the “Run” dialog. Click the “View” tab and select the “Show hidden files, folders, and drives” option and uncheck “Hide protected operating system files” check box .
2.Go to Start > Search > All Files or Folders. , In the “All or part of the the file name” section, type in “csrss.exe” file name(s). .
3.When Windows finishes your search, find the “In Folder” of “csrss.exe”, highlight the file and copy/paste the path into the address bar. Save the file’s path on your clipboard because you’ll need the file path to delete csrss.exe in the following manual removal steps. .
5.Go to the path that you obtained in Step 3 and place the CSRSS.EXE file along with any other files in that folder into the “Recycle Bin.” Restart your computer and check the Windows Task Manager again to see if the Trojan is gone. .
To ensure that the csrss.exe file running on your computer is legitimate and not a virus, We are not highly recommending to use the manual way to remove CSRSS.EXE You can easily remove the files in the temp folder by running one of registry cleaner software. we have used Ashampoo WinOptimizer 11 to remove this EXE virus and it worked so we recommended to you too..
