What is freddy75.exe?

freddy75.exe is usually located in the 'c:\WINDOWS\' folder.

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.

Vendor and version information [?]

freddy75.exe does not have any version or vendor information.

Digital signatures [?]

freddy75.exe is not signed.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD50b5a2e6227c9879fb21f62eec3223eed
SHA256353eea5ffe2cea5e6967fdd3644d63d78bca3079b6db16589bfec04351412d82

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to freddy75.exe:

freddy75.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

freddy75.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

freddy75.exe has stopped working.

End Program - freddy75.exe. This program is not responding.

freddy75.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

freddy75.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

What will you do with freddy75.exe?

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What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with freddy75.exe. 95% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 91 users.

User vote results: There were 86 votes to remove and 5 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Roger Karlsson writes

3 thumbs

If you got freddy75.exe on your machine, it's infected with Koobface:

http://www.virustotal.com/sv/analisis/536c0432125f91e8766c3cc94134aeba1e164a2381e6c39b70fe80662ca006a7-1258726065

It's relatively easy to remove this variant of Koobface. Locate

"c:\windows\freddy75.exe",
"c:\windows\ld15.exe" and
"c:\Program Files\captcha.dll"

in Freefixers scan result and check them for removal. Restart your machine and run a Freefixer scan again. Verify that the 3 files above no longer appear anywhere in the scan result.

Hope that helps.

# 20 Nov 2009, 6:09

michael writes

1 thumb

I found freddy75.exe in the NVIDIA files of windows. Also got it from facebook after wife opened a suspicious video message. It keeps popping up messages every 10 minutes.

# 23 Nov 2009, 1:21

skip writes

3 thumbs

what I did to remove this was to get into run msconfig disabled start-up programs starting in safe mode might be easy to do. restarted installed MalwareBytes anti-malware updated it & ran a quick scan found this along with 30+ more problems. note some virus maybe removed but some hide in the system restore so I disable it restart & complete a full scan using MalwareBytes anti-malware & restart to be sure.

# 23 Nov 2009, 22:35

Geir writes

1 thumb

I found a file under window/ with the name freddy73.exe.

# 24 Nov 2009, 15:28

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

@Geir: freddy73.exe is also Koobface file. It's usually located in c:\Windows\. You can safely delete it from your hard drive.

# 25 Nov 2009, 3:15

Kiki writes

0 thumbs

THANKS!
I ran it on my computer, and it went through very fast. (actually, faster than McAfee!!)
I hope it's gone now. I don't see freddy in there, so I think it's fine. Thank so much! I think I'm gonna keep and eye one FreeFixer for a VERY long time!!

# 25 Nov 2009, 17:10

Andrew writes

0 thumbs

Seems to get stuck at the Windows XP Firewall allowed programmes part of scan.

# 29 Nov 2009, 14:02

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

@Andrew: If FreeFixer repeatedly gets stuck during the Windows XP Firewall application scan, you can disable that scan location by adding

plugins.xpfwauthapps.enable=0

to the settings file. The settings file location is "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\FreeFixer\settings.txt", where %USERNAME% is your user name.

You can find more information on the available settings here:

http://www.freefixer.com/manual.html#configfile

Did that solve the problem?

# 30 Nov 2009, 15:07

Andrew writes

0 thumbs

Thank you for replying, Roger. Unfortunately, when I navigate to that folder, it appears empty.

# 1 Dec 2009, 14:01

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

@Andrew: Oh, sorry! The settings file is initially created when FreeFixer is shut down with the X button in the upper right corner in the FreeFixer window. Just start FreeFixer and close it, and the settings.txt file should be available to edit in the "C:\Documents and Settings\%USERNAME%\Application Data\FreeFixer\" folder.

# 4 Dec 2009, 13:30

Andrew writes

0 thumbs

That got it working and Freddy removed. Many thanks.

# 6 Dec 2009, 11:50

Roger Karlsson writes

0 thumbs

The Koobface worm knows how to escape detection. Here's a virustotal scan from a new variant of freddy75.exe. Only 5/41 antivirus programs detects it:

http://www.virustotal.com//analisis/1053fe78ba7f6f070fa2b355d529ead366d8ec65eed4fa036ce094c4a4972771-1260232147

# 7 Dec 2009, 16:33

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