What is autorun.exe?

autorun.exe's description is "autorun" according to the autorun.exe version information.

autorun.exe is digitally signed by Prof-IT.

autorun.exe is usually located in the 'c:\downloads\' folder.

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

40 of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the autorun.exe file. That's a 71% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
Agnitum	Riskware.Agent!
AhnLab-V3	PUP/Win32.Downloader
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.Mikey.D4F32
Avast	Win32:Agent-AYBM [PUP]
AVG	Win32/DH{gVQ2JQ?}
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu-International	Trojan.Win32.SelfDel.bdpb
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
Bkav	W32.HfsAdware.8054
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.SelfDel.r5
Comodo	Application.Win32.RuKometa.~AGB
Cyren	W32/Trojan.XLSJ-7182
DrWeb	Trojan.LoadMoney.702
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/RuKometa.E potentially unwanted
F-Secure	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
Fortinet	W32/LdMon.E
GData	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.SelfDel
Jiangmin	Trojan/Selfdel.bfrl
K7AntiVirus	Adware ( 004b94241 )
K7GW	Adware ( 004b94241 )
Kaspersky	Trojan.Win32.SelfDel.bdpb
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Agent
McAfee	Artemis!A3FF4612555C
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis!Trojan
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Mikey.20274
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.DownLoader15.duhipk
Panda	Generic Suspicious
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Sophos	Mal/LdMon-T
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Selfdel.Lohz
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R0EBC0RIC15
VBA32	Trojan.SelfDel
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Zillya	Trojan.RuKometa.Win32.15

autorun.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\autorun.exe

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

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

Folder name variants

autorun.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\downloads\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\a\
• c:\downloads\b\
• c:\input\

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