What is maintainer.bak?
maintainer.bak is digitally signed by AppEnable.
maintainer.bak is usually located in the 'c:\ProgramData\e25f457c-9287-4f2d-b5a8-8cd714c55009\' folder.
Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected maintainer.bak.
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 maintainer.bak:
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Product version | 1.0.5421.16103 |
| File version | 1.0.5421.16103 |
Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:
| Product version | 1.0.5421.16103 |
| File version | 1.0.5421.16103 |
Digital signatures [?]
maintainer.bak has a valid digital signature.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Signer name | AppEnable |
| Certificate issuer name | VeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA |
| Certificate serial number | 6860da46b7b1033aeaa52297beee857a |
VirusTotal report
22 of the 54 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the maintainer.bak file. That's a 41% detection rate.
| Scanner | Detection Name |
|---|---|
| Ad-Aware | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 |
| AhnLab-V3 | Adware/Win32.SwiftBrowse |
| Antiy-AVL | GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Kranet |
| Avast | Win32:Adware-BYZ [PUP] |
| Avira | ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen7 |
| Baidu-International | Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.bV |
| BitDefender | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 |
| ClamAV | Win.Adware.Agent-22685 |
| DrWeb | Trojan.BPlug.281 |
| Emsisoft | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 (B) |
| ESET-NOD32 | Win32/BrowseFox.V |
| F-Secure | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 |
| GData | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 |
| Kaspersky | not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Yotoon.bfm |
| McAfee | Artemis!1C93C5EA57F3 |
| McAfee-GW-Edition | Artemis |
| MicroWorld-eScan | Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 |
| NANO-Antivirus | Riskware.Win32.Kranet.dgiwfc |
| Qihoo-360 | HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen |
| Tencent | Win32.Adware.Yotoon.Eaxn |
| VBA32 | AdWare.Kranet |
| Zillya | Adware.Kranet.Win32.476 |
maintainer.bak removal instructions
The instructions below shows how to remove maintainer.bak with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the maintainer.bak file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that maintainer.bak has been successfully removed. Here are the removal instructions in more detail:
- Download and install FreeFixer: http://www.freefixer.com/download.html
- Start FreeFixer and press the Start Scan button. The scan will finish in approximately five minutes.
- When the scan is finished, locate maintainer.bak in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the maintainer.bak 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 maintainer.bak in the scan result.
c:\ProgramData\e25f457c-9287-4f2d-b5a8-8cd714c55009\maintainer.bak 
- Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the maintainer.bak file.
- Restart your computer.
- Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If maintainer.bak still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If maintainer.bak is gone from the scan result you're done.
- If maintainer.bak still remains in the scan result, check its checkbox again in the scan result and click Fix.
- Restart your computer.
- Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. Verify that maintainer.bak no longer appear in the scan result.
Hashes [?]
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| MD5 | 1c93c5ea57f38f41e86bc674ac9d0e7a |
| SHA256 | 75c2b7a1f35a2f659ea1521918c7859a35493b1674cc9655ac701f02f6bb2bc7 |
What will you do with maintainer.bak?
To help other users, please let us know what you will do with maintainer.bak:
What did other users do?
The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with maintainer.bak. 100% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 9 users.
| Votes | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Keep | 0 % | 0 | |
| Remove | 100 % | 9 |
NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with maintainer.bak. Only 9 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.
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.
The folder on my laptop is ......EXE and not ......BAK
I am going to try to remove but don't expect to as you have not mentioned that it works for EXE folder also.
# 20 Dec 2014, 1:07
Aziz writes