What is gist.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

41 of the 67 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the gist.exe file. That's a 61% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
AegisLab	Troj.W32.Generic!c
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.Agent.C2465996
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D1D32632
AVG	FileRepMalware
Avira	DR/AutoIt.Gen
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
ClamAV	Win.Trojan.AutoIT-6333854-0
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_80% (W)
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/AutoIt.EN.gen!Eldorado
DrWeb	Trojan.DownLoader26.34018
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090 (B)
ESET-NOD32	Win32/Injector.Autoit.CNO
F-Prot	W32/AutoIt.EN.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004f8a7d1 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004f8a7d1 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
MAX	malware (ai score=94)
McAfee	RDN/Generic.tfr
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Dropper.bc
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Pynamer.A!ac
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.30615090
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM06.2.81B1.Malware.Gen
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Inject.Auto
TheHacker	Trojan/Agent.odm
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DDG18
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Autoit.748359
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Zoner	Probably RARAutorun

gist.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\gist.exe

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

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

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