{"id":1245,"date":"2014-07-31T09:29:48","date_gmt":"2014-07-31T09:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=1245"},"modified":"2018-05-29T12:02:49","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T12:02:49","slug":"remove-unknownfile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-unknownfile\/","title":{"rendered":"What is UnknownFile? And How To Remove It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a pop-up dialog labeled &#8220;<strong>UnknownFile<\/strong>&#8221; while double-clicking on a file on your computer?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1246 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.png\" alt=\"UnknownFile Dialog\" width=\"470\" height=\"255\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.png 470w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile-300x162.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 470px) 100vw, 470px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, then you&#8217;ve got the <strong>UnknownFile File Assistant<\/strong> installed on your machine. While this dialog is active, you can also see <a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/UnknownFile.exe-135763\/\">UnknownFile.exe<\/a> running in the Windows Task Manager. You probably got this program on your computer\u00a0when installing something else. I found <strong>UnknownFile<\/strong> bundled with the Softango Downloaders. Did you also download and install something from Softango?<\/p>\n<p>So, how do you remove <strong>UnknownFile<\/strong>? No problem, just uninstall it from the Programs and Features dialog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile-Uninstall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1247\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile-Uninstall.png\" alt=\"UnknownFile Uninstall\" width=\"642\" height=\"60\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile-Uninstall.png 642w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile-Uninstall-300x28.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 642px) 100vw, 642px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hope you found this useful.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, none of the anti-virus programs detects UnknownFile, except MalwareBytes which has named UnknownFile.exe\u00a0<strong>Trojan.Agent.MVXGen<\/strong>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.exe-VirusTotal.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-1248 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.exe-VirusTotal.png\" alt=\"UnknownFile.exe VirusTotal Report - Trojan.Agent.MVXGen\" width=\"704\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.exe-VirusTotal.png 704w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/UnknownFile.exe-VirusTotal-300x109.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 704px) 100vw, 704px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getting a pop-up dialog labeled &#8220;UnknownFile&#8221; while double-clicking on a file on your computer? Well, then you&#8217;ve got the UnknownFile File Assistant installed on your machine. While this dialog is active, you can also see UnknownFile.exe running in the Windows Task Manager. You probably got this program on your computer\u00a0when installing something else. I found &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/remove-unknownfile\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">What is UnknownFile? And How To Remove It<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[129,128],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1245"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1252,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245\/revisions\/1252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}