What is plugincontainer.bak?

plugincontainer.bak is digitally signed by Internet Program.

plugincontainer.bak is usually located in the 'c:\ProgramData\6fb1f30a-cea7-4ccf-bff8-acbecbfe46f9\' folder.

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

VirusTotal report

11 of the 55 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the plugincontainer.bak file. That's a 20% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
AhnLab-V3	PUP/Win32.BrowseFox
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
AVG	Generic.69A
Avira	ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen
AVware	Yontoo (fs)
ClamAV	Win.Adware.Browsefox-856
DrWeb	Trojan.Yontoo.1735
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.AU potentially unwanted
K7AntiVirus	Unwanted-Program ( 004b5ce11 )
K7GW	Unwanted-Program ( 004b5ce11 )
VIPRE	Yontoo (fs)

plugincontainer.bak removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\ProgramData\6fb1f30a-cea7-4ccf-bff8-acbecbfe46f9\plugincontainer.bak

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

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

What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with the file. 78% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 9 users.

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with the file. Only 9 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

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