What is rukm.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

47 of the 50 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the rukm.exe file. That's a 94% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.SalityStub.A
Agnitum	Win32.Sality.BK
AhnLab-V3	Win32/Kashu.E
AntiVir	W32/Sality.AT
Antiy-AVL	Virus/Win32.Sality.gen
Avast	Win32:Sality
AVG	Win32/Sality.dropper
Baidu-International	Virus.Win32.Sality.$Emu
BitDefender	Trojan.SalityStub.A
Bkav	W32.Sality.PE
ByteHero	Virus.Win32.Heur.d
CAT-QuickHeal	W32.Sality.U
ClamAV	Win.Virus.Sality-19
Commtouch	W32/Sality.gen2
Comodo	Virus.Win32.Sality.Gen
DrWeb	Win32.Sector.31
Emsisoft	Trojan.SalityStub.A (B)
ESET-NOD32	Win32/Sality
F-Prot	W32/Sality.gen2
F-Secure	Trojan.SalityStub.A
Fortinet	W32/LPECrypt.A!tr
GData	Trojan.SalityStub.A
Ikarus	Virus.Win32.Sality
Jiangmin	Win32/HLLP.Kuku.Gen
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 001e7bc71 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 001e7bc71 )
Kaspersky	Virus.Win32.Sality.gen
Malwarebytes	Trojan.Malpack.Gen
McAfee	W32/Sality.gen.z
McAfee-GW-Edition	Heuristic.BehavesLike.Win32.Suspicious-BAY.G
Microsoft	Worm:Win32/Sality.AU
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.SalityStub.A
NANO-Antivirus	Virus.Win32.Sality.beygb
Norman	Sality.dam
nProtect	Trojan.SalityStub.A
Panda	W32/Sality.AK.drp
Rising	PE:Trojan.Win32.KUKU.a!1075333286
Sophos	Troj/SalLoad-C
SUPERAntiSpyware	Trojan.Agent/Gen-Packed[LordPE]
Symantec	W32.Sality!dr
TheHacker	W32/Sality.gen
TotalDefense	Win32/Sality.AN!Dropped
TrendMicro	PE_SALITY.RL-O
TrendMicro-HouseCall	PE_SALITY.RL-O
VBA32	Virus.Win32.Sality.bakb
VIPRE	Virus.Win32.Sality.at (v)
ViRobot	Win32.Sality.N.Host

rukm.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\rukm.exe

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

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

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