What is hhgg.exe?

hhgg.exe is part of Firefox and developed by Mozilla Corporation according to the hhgg.exe version information.

hhgg.exe's description is "Firefox"

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

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

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on hhgg.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameFirefox
Company nameMozilla Corporation
File descriptionFirefox
Internal nameFirefox
Original filenamefirefox.exe
Legal copyright©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; available under the MPL 2 license.
Legal trademarkFirefox is a Trademark of The Mozilla Foundation.
Product version58.0.2
File version58.0.2

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameFirefox
Company nameMozilla Corporation
File descriptionFirefox
Internal nameFirefox
Original filenamefirefox.exe
Legal copyright©Firefox and Mozilla Developers; av..
Legal trademarkFirefox is a Trademark of The Mozill..
Product version58.0.2
File version58.0.2

Digital signatures [?]

hhgg.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

42 of the 67 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the hhgg.exe file. That's a 63% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban
AegisLab Troj.W32.Generic!c
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Inject.C2493040
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.AGeneric
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Avira TR/Dropper.Gen
Baidu Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9975
BitDefender Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban
Bkav HW32.Packed.6402
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Cloxer
Comodo UnclassifiedMalware
CrowdStrike malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.NYDR-3205
DrWeb Trojan.Starter.7606
Emsisoft Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban (B)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/Packed.PrivateexeProtector.F suspicious
F-Secure Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban
Fortinet Riskware/Application
GData Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban
Invincea heuristic
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0042f7bb1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0042f7bb1 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
MAX malware (ai score=99)
McAfee Artemis!783F5A77DDB2
McAfee-GW-Edition BehavesLike.Win32.Trojan.tc
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Trojan.Heur.Iz0@vPS4tYban
NANO-Antivirus Virus.Win32.Gen-Crypt.ccnc
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/CI.A
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Infostealer
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Generic.Agvf
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R020H0CE518
VBA32 Heur.Trojan.Hlux
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot Trojan.Win32.Z.Agent.1617920.DP
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
42 of the 67 anti-virus programs detected the hhgg.exe file.

hhgg.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove hhgg.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the hhgg.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that hhgg.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.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  3. When the scan is finished, locate hhgg.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the hhgg.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 hhgg.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\hhgg.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the hhgg.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If hhgg.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If hhgg.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If hhgg.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 hhgg.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the removal instructions given above








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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5783f5a77ddb2191edead0deff775026f
SHA256c13570f664de26f9737564fff58fe030de874c4bacedb4d9b3e8859a5dab1da5

Error Messages

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

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

hhgg.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.

Firefox has stopped working.

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

hhgg.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

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