What is monhost.exe?

monhost.exe is part of monhost.exe and developed by Vested Development, Inc according to the monhost.exe version information.

monhost.exe's description is "monhost.exe"

monhost.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\vdi\shared\product updater\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

39 of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the monhost.exe file. That's a 70% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
AegisLab	Uds.Dangerousobject.Multi!c
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.Glupteba.N2156917007
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
Antiy-AVL	Trojan[Proxy]/Win32.Glupteba
Arcabit	Trojan.Zusy.D33AF9
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Atros4.ATNH
Avira	TR/ATRAPS.wpmvk
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9788
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
Bkav	W32.eHeur.Malware08
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_76% (D)
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Glupteba.AQ
F-Secure	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
Fortinet	W32/Glupteba.AQ!tr
GData	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
Invincea	trojanspy.win32.skeeyah.a!rfn
Jiangmin	TrojanProxy.Glupteba.vu
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004fcda01 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004fcda01 )
Kaspersky	Trojan-Proxy.Win32.Glupteba.pox
Malwarebytes	PUP.Optional.ProductUpdater
McAfee	Artemis!F840B6FC640B
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis!Trojan
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Carberp.BW!bit
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Zusy.211705
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Glupteba.eihgxt
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.72b
Rising	Malware.Generic!teV9SrCS7MO@5 (thunder)
SUPERAntiSpyware	Trojan.Agent/Gen-Gulpteba
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Zusy.Ectk
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R0C1H0CKG16
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Yandex	Trojan.PR.Glupteba!

monhost.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\roaming\vdi\shared\product updater\monhost.exe

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

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

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