What is ban.exe?

ban.exe is part of Directory Listing handler and developed by Mercury General Corporation according to the ban.exe version information.

ban.exe's description is "Directory Listing handler"

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

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

39 of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the ban.exe file. That's a 57% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.Agent
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D268B9A5
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen
AVG	Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira	TR/Kryptik.qeooy
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9999
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
ClamAV	Win.Trojan.Agent-6656132-0
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_60% (D)
Cylance	Unsafe
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of MSIL/Kryptik.PFC
F-Secure	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
Fortinet	MSIL/Kryptik.PFC!tr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
Ikarus	Trojan.MSIL.Crypt
Jiangmin	Trojan.Agent.bnvw
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 0053a1431 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 0053a1431 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Agent.gen
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	Packed-FKK!21DAA55B0921
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.hh
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.40417701
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.74b
Rising	Trojan.Kryptik!8.8 (CLOUD)
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Agent.Hrfm
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R01FC0OHN18
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R01FC0OHN18
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Agent.gen

ban.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\ban.exe

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

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

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