What is Player Setup.exe?

Player Setup.exe is digitally signed by Plugin Update SL.

Player Setup.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\downloads\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected Player Setup.exe.

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

VirusTotal report

20 of the 55 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the Player Setup.exe file. That's a 36% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Agnitum	Riskware.Agent!
Antiy-AVL	Trojan[:HEUR]/Win32.AGeneric
Avast	Win32:GenMalicious-NP [PUP]
AVG	Win32/DH{gRJ+UIEHeVRPFVGBFYEJHFOBE0GBDw}
Avira	APPL/Softpulse.Gen8
AVware	DomaIQ (fs)
DrWeb	Trojan.DownLoader11.30734
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/SoftPulse.L
GData	Win32.Application.Softpulse.F
K7AntiVirus	Unwanted-Program ( 0040f8f21 )
K7GW	Unwanted-Program ( 0040f8f21 )
Malwarebytes	PUP.Optional.DomaIQ
McAfee	SoftPulse
McAfee-GW-Edition	SoftPulse
NANO-Antivirus	Riskware.Win32.SoftPulse.deniau
Norman	Malware
Panda	Trj/Genetic.gen
Sophos	SoftPulse
VBA32	BScope.Adware.Softpulse
VIPRE	DomaIQ (fs)

Player Setup.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove Player Setup.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the Player Setup.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that Player Setup.exe has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:

1. Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
2. Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.

   
3. When the scan is finished, locate Player Setup.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the Player Setup.exe file. Do not check any other file for removal unless you are 100% sure you want to delete it. Tip: Press CTRL-F to open up FreeFixer's search dialog to quickly locate Player Setup.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   c:\users\%USERNAME%\downloads\Player Setup.exe

   
4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the Player Setup.exe file.

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If Player Setup.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If Player Setup.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If Player Setup.exe still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
8. Restart your computer.
9. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that Player Setup.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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