What is rat.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

51 of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the rat.exe file. That's a 75% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
AegisLab	Troj.W32.Generic!c
ALYac	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.AGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.RevengeRat.2
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Win32:Malware-gen
Avira	TR/ATRAPS.Gen
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9999
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Generic.FC.519
ClamAV	Win.Trojan.RevengeRat-6344273-0
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.57582e
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/Trojan.YWEA-3066
DrWeb	BackDoor.RevetRat.2
eGambit	Trojan.Generic
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of MSIL/Agent.APN
F-Secure	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
Fortinet	MSIL/Agent.APN!tr
GData	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
Ikarus	Trojan.MSIL.Agent
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 700000121 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 700000121 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Agent.MSIL
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	GenericRXAR-ZF!8B4873A57582
McAfee-GW-Edition	GenericRXAR-ZF!8B4873A57582
Microsoft	Backdoor:MSIL/Revetrat.A!bit
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.RevengeRat.2
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.961
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Revetrat
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Generic.Ebgy
TrendMicro	BKDR_REVET.SM
TrendMicro-HouseCall	BKDR_REVET.SM
VBA32	Backdoor.RevetRat
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Revetrat.16896.HI
Yandex	Trojan.Agent!DvGEVMF9oz0
Zillya	Backdoor.Zegost.Win32.4932
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Trojan.Win32.Generic

rat.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\rat.exe

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

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

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