What is observer.exe?

observer.exe is part of Chest and developed by romanlab Software according to the observer.exe version information.

observer.exe's description is "Andnetcat"

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

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

VirusTotal report

40 of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the observer.exe file. That's a 71% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
AhnLab-V3	Backdoor/Win32.Noancooe
ALYac	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.Coantor.29
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Inject3.AMBF
Avira	TR/Dropper.VB.koty
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
Cyren	W32/S-cda3cc62!Eldorado
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Injector.CWZN
F-Prot	W32/S-cda3cc62!Eldorado
F-Secure	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
Fortinet	Malicious_Behavior.VEX.99
GData	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
Ikarus	Trojan.VB.Inject
Jiangmin	Trojan.PSW.Fareit.cvh
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004e97fd1 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004e97fd1 )
Kaspersky	Trojan-PSW.Win32.Fareit.bsjw
Malwarebytes	Spyware.Pony
McAfee	Fareit-FED!C4AED5038390
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.PWSZbot.fc
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Skeeyah.A!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Coantor.29
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.CWZN.ebukza
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM03.0.Malware.Gen
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
SUPERAntiSpyware	Trojan.Agent/Gen-VB
Symantec	Trojan.Gen
Tencent	Win32.Trojan-qqpass.Qqrob.Syru
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R00XC0DDN16
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TSPY_FAREIT.SMJX
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Symmi.339968.E[h]
Yandex	Trojan.PWS.Fareit!nAUB1rMrS3o
Zillya	Trojan.Fareit.Win32.14756

observer.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\observer.exe

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

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

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