What is WinSxA.exe?

WinSxA.exe is digitally signed by 1336 LIMITED.

WinSxA.exe is usually located in the 'C:\ProgramData\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected WinSxA.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

30 of the 62 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the WinSxA.exe file. That's a 48% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Avira	TR/Crypt.ZPACK.wnyvr
CAT-QuickHeal	Non_Mal.Generic
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_60% (D)
Cylance	Unsafe
DrWeb	Trojan.MulDrop7.40740
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Kryptik.FWQM
Fortinet	W32/Kryptik.FWKO!tr
GData	Win32.Trojan.Agent.29562Z
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.Crypt
Invincea	heuristic
Jiangmin	AdWare.Generic.inqt
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 005171a21 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 005171a21 )
Kaspersky	Trojan.Win32.Ekstak.agmr
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Dropper
MAX	malware (ai score=99)
McAfee	Packed-NZ.b!1EB40A2804EB
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/Genetic.gen
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM19.1.DFAD.Malware.Gen
Rising	Malware.Heuristic!ET#100% (RDM+:cmRtazptnruxQtkOsrkkbfvVXRDj)
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Tencent	Trojan.Ransomware.Gen.b.0
Webroot	W32.Trojan.Dropper
ZoneAlarm	Trojan.Win32.Ekstak.agmr

WinSxA.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove WinSxA.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the WinSxA.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that WinSxA.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 WinSxA.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the WinSxA.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 WinSxA.exe in the scan result.

   

   

   C:\ProgramData\WinSxA.exe

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

   
5. Restart your computer.
6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If WinSxA.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If WinSxA.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
7. If WinSxA.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 WinSxA.exe no longer appear in the scan result.

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