What is vhosted.exe?

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

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

29 of the 61 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the vhosted.exe file. That's a 48% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
AegisLab	Troj.W32.Autoit!c
AhnLab-V3	Malware/Gen.Generic.C1834334
Avira	TR/AD.NetWiredRc.oglar
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9867
ClamAV	Win.Trojan.RC465-5900681-0
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_100% (D)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/TrojanDropper.Binder.NEF
Fortinet	W32/Binder.NEF!tr
GData	Win32.Trojan.Agent.TCAAZY
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.Injector
Invincea	backdoor.win32.fynloski.a
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 004fb8f31 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 004fb8f31 )
Kaspersky	Trojan.Win32.Autoit.abgbz
McAfee	Artemis!3FAA8A149A5B
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Dropper.fc
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Drop.emdtfp
Paloalto	generic.ml
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.e4e
Rising	Malware.Generic.4!tfe (cloud:ZVWbuhYengL)
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Trojan.Autoit.Loik
TheHacker	Trojan/Generik.CEASDNT
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Binder.346760[h]
ZoneAlarm	Trojan.Win32.Autoit.abgbz

vhosted.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\vhosted.exe

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

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

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