Most Common Malware Related Processes-Taskbar.exe

Taskbar.exe is known to be used by two programs. While neither are essential to the proper running of your system, one is a genuine file that can be left to safely run on your computer in the majority of cases. The other, however, is the Frethem.L virus, which is definitely an undesirable application to have running on your system.

Sapphire Graphics Card users will probably find that taskbar.exe is a part of the Redline RegTweak software that is included with many of these graphics cards and while this is not an essential Windows component it is a safe process to have running on your system.

The other known case of the taskbar.exe process is as part of the Frethem.L worm. This self replicating virus spreads by collecting emails from popular email clients installed on infected computers and then forwarding itself as an attachment to those email addresses. The Frethem.L worm does not have any other malicious payload and exists only to propagate from one machine to another.