What is fame.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

31 of the 52 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the fame.exe file. That's a 60% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
AegisLab	Troj.Psw.W32.Tepfer!c
AhnLab-V3	Malware/Win32.Generic.N2040535092
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D339565
Avast	Win32:Trojan-gen
Avira	DR/Autoit.wgei
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
CAT-QuickHeal	TrojanPWS.Fareit
Cyren	W32/Trojan.JNEV-8002
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581 (B)
F-Secure	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
Fortinet	PossibleThreat
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.Injector
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004f37b21 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004f37b21 )
Kaspersky	Trojan-PSW.Win32.Tepfer.psxmir
McAfee	RDN/Generic.cf
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Downloader.bc
Microsoft	PWS:Win32/Fareit
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
nProtect	Trojan.GenericKD.3380581
Panda	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM41.2.0000.Malware.Gen
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen
Tencent	Win32.Trojan-qqpass.Qqrob.Pfab
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Agent.747008.F[h]

fame.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\fame.exe

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

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

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