What is cygwin.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

44 of the 70 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the cygwin.exe file. That's a 63% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Acronis	suspicious
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740
AhnLab-V3	Malware/Win32.Generic.C2729325
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.Tasker
Arcabit	Trojan.Ulise.D6CC
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Win32:Malware-gen
Avira	TR/AD.CoinMiner.tmifv
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Mauvaise.SL1
Comodo	Malware@#1dy02q8wln4b0
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.fa41aa
Cylance	Unsafe
DrWeb	Trojan.DownLoader27.30160
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/CoinMiner.BSV
Fortinet	W32/CoinMiner.BSV!tr
GData	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.CoinMiner
Jiangmin	TrojanDownloader.Bitmin.je
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 005405e51 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 005405e51 )
Kaspersky	Trojan.Win32.Tasker.cpf
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	RDN/Generic.grp
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Dropper.dh
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner!MTB
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Ulise.1740
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.764
Rising	Trojan.CoinMiner!8.30A (TFE:5:6aA0R3jWLzO)
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Tasker.Sunc
Trapmine	malicious.moderate.ml.score
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00AS19
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00AS19
Webroot	W32.Trojan.Gen
Zillya	Trojan.Tasker.Win32.936
ZoneAlarm	Trojan.Win32.Tasker.cpf

cygwin.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\cygwin.exe

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

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

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