What is Handful.exe?

[Stefanopolis]

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Hey guys, recently a program called "handful.exe" has been showing up in my Task Manager and I have no idea where it came from. I was wondering if any of you could shed some light on this process. Maybe it's harmful and I'm incompetent but I would just like to know.

Thanks!

[Guest]

That's a handful of handful you got there /s

Can you right click on it and see where the program is located at?

[Jiaweeeee]

3 minutes ago, Stefanopolis said:

Hey guys, recently a program called "handful.exe" has been showing up in my Task Manager and I have no idea where it came from. I was wondering if any of you could shed some light on this process. Maybe it's harmful and I'm incompetent but I would just like to know.

Thanks!

It's definitely something harmful , especially the amount of RAM its using . Was it something that you recently installed ? Go to "Program and feature" and sort the programs on when it was recently installed . Maybe it came bundled in an installer .

[SkilledRebuilds]

Rightclick, open file location.

First step to troubleshooting random.exe's

[ARikozuM]

When you're holding the right amount of her executables...?

[Jiaweeeee]

1 minute ago, ARikozuM said:

When you're holding the right amount of her executables...?

I don't think I have enough RAM to handle her handful.exe though , I might crash trying . Maybe uninstalling her from my life might be a good idea

[Guest]

2 minutes ago, Jiaweeeee said:

I don't think I have enough RAM to handle her handful.exe though , I might crash trying . Maybe uninstalling her from my life might be a good idea

Maybe Chrome has a new name

[ARikozuM]

2 minutes ago, Jiaweeeee said:

I don't think I have enough RAM to handle her handful.exe though , I might crash trying . Maybe uninstalling her from my life might be a good idea

High maintenance is the price we pay for tech.

[Jiaweeeee]

4 minutes ago, ARikozuM said:

High maintenance is the price we pay for tech.

RAMdiggers nowaday .... 

[Stefanopolis]

Hey so I figured out that it's playing audio ads in the background and it's in my audio tray and shows up as like 10+ different sources. Any Ideas? 

[SCHISCHKA]

'handful.exe' is really hard to find through google. i can't find anything legitimate or malicious. Any more information you can provide?

[ARikozuM]

Boot into Kaspersky's Rescue Disk and try to use the virus scan or Malwarebytes to find the malware.

[SkilledRebuilds]

Any Ideas...

 

Locate File on Drive

Remove File.

If locked or in use, destroy process's and delete exe.

 

 

[Stefanopolis]

It's not showing up in Malwarebytes, Zemana, JRT, HitMan Pro, AdwCleaner. I don't know where it came from and it DOESN'T show up in programs and features.

[SkilledRebuilds]

1 minute ago, Stefanopolis said:

It's not showing up in Malwarebytes, Zemana, JRT, HitMan Pro, AdwCleaner. I don't know where it came from and it DOESN'T show up in programs and features.

Rightclick the handful.exe in Task manager and OPEN FILE LOCATION

It will point you in the right direction of where it is, and then you can take appropriate measures.

[Stefanopolis]

1 minute ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Rightclick the handful.exe and OPEN FILE LOCATION

It will point you in the right direction of where it is, and then you can take appropriate measures.

Got it. But I cant delete, not because I dont have admin priv, it's open. I can use JRT and that stops it for a bit, I'll get back in a bit.

[SkilledRebuilds]

2 minutes ago, Stefanopolis said:

Got it. But I cant delete, not because I dont have admin priv, it's open. I can use JRT and that stops it for a bit, I'll get back in a bit.

You open file location.

Go back to task manager, start killing off those exe's.

*It shows 7-10 of them exe's, if you remove ONE, does it come back, or does the list shrink and shrink the more you remove them from running.? Or just reload the exe again?

 

If they are not coming back, then when you remove the last exe from task manager, you quickly alt-tab to the other window and delete the exe file that was previously locked.

 

/Not always an option if they keep re-loading.

[Stefanopolis]

3 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

You open file location.

Go back to task manager, start killing off those exe's.

*It shows 7-10 of them exe's, if you remove ONE, does it come back, or does the list shrink and shrink the more you remove them from running.? Or just reload the exe again?

 

If they are not coming back, then when you remove the last exe from task manager, you quickly alt-tab to the other window and delete the exe file that was previously locked.

 

/Not always an option if they keep re-loading.

Deleted it. Thanks for the help!

[Jiaweeeee]

What's the parent folder ? What's the full directory name ? Might be useful 

[ARikozuM]

3 minutes ago, Stefanopolis said:

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Make sure you choose @SkilledRebuilds's answer as Best Answer if his posts helped you out.

[Stefanopolis]

While I was typing my response, my PC was restated because of handful.exe. This may have seemed confusing but after much trial and error I think I finally figured it out. "Handful.exe," the file, had complete system permissions, hid in the Program Files (x86) folder in a hidden folder that i had to change to non-hidden to view it. If I deleted the file, it would restart my PC and just come back. What I had to do is: 
1. Deny all system permissions
2. Change the folder (which was called "Increments") to be visible
3. Individually delete all processes in task manager 
4. Delete "handful.exe" before the processes restarted
5. Delete the folder "Increments"  There was also a folder called Mkt and maruguerite, if anyone wanted to know.
6. Empty recycling bin, CCleaner, Malwarebytes, etc.
It was weird and kept coming back, but I hope it's gone for good. 
Thanks for all the help guys! This community truly is great.

- Stefan

[SkilledRebuilds]

Glad it all worked out in the end without reinstalling Windows.

 

[Stefanopolis]

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