What is winners.exe?

winners.exe is part of Same as in FIleDescription and developed by Company name according to the winners.exe version information.

winners.exe's description is "How is seen in task manager"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on winners.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameSame as in FIleDescription
Company nameCompany name
File descriptionHow is seen in task manager
Internal namewinners.exe
Original filenamewinners.exe
CommentsRandom comments
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2008 - 2018. All rights reserved.
Product version5.9.30.4
File version5.9.30.4

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameSame as in FIleDescription
Company nameCompany name
File descriptionHow is seen in task manager
Internal namewinners.exe
Original filenamewinners.exe
CommentsRandom comments
Legal copyrightCopyright © 2008 - 2018. All rights..
Product version5.9.30.4
File version5.9.30.4

Digital signatures [?]

winners.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

42 of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the winners.exe file. That's a 62% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Trojan.GenericKD.40422112
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.MSIL.R220700
ALYac Gen:Variant.MSILPerseus.160513
Antiy-AVL Trojan[Backdoor]/Win32.Agent
Arcabit Trojan.Generic.D268CAE0
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9998
BitDefender Trojan.GenericKD.40422112
Cylance Unsafe
Cyren W32/Trojan.BEJ.gen!Eldorado
Emsisoft Trojan.Crypt (A)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/Kryptik.PHG
F-Prot W32/Trojan.BEJ.gen!Eldorado
F-Secure Trojan.GenericKD.40422112
Fortinet W32/Generic.PHG!tr
GData Trojan.GenericKD.40422112
Ikarus Trojan.MSIL.Crypt
Invincea heuristic
Jiangmin Trojan.Generic.cocld
K7GW Trojan ( 0053ad751 )
Kaspersky HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.Agent.gen
Malwarebytes Spyware.PasswordStealer
MAX malware (ai score=100)
McAfee Packed-FKK!3DC11135F19F
McAfee-GW-Edition Packed-FKK!3DC11135F19F
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!rfn
MicroWorld-eScan Trojan.GenericKD.40422112
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 Win32/Backdoor.6e0
Rising Backdoor.Agent!8.C5D (CLOUD)
SentinelOne static engine - malicious
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent Win32.Backdoor.Agent.Loib
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00HM18
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.F0C2C00HM18
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ZoneAlarm HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.Agent.gen
42 of the 68 anti-virus programs detected the winners.exe file.

winners.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove winners.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the winners.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that winners.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.
    Screenshot of Start Scan button
  3. When the scan is finished, locate winners.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the winners.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 winners.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\downloads\winners.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the winners.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If winners.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If winners.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If winners.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 winners.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the removal instructions given above








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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD53dc11135f19f9095eeb6bd1ef82f41b4
SHA2569ba70b84654a1a93af82fe10806952683df24a3fd4dd27793428ff9e87364023

Error Messages

These are some of the error messages that can appear related to winners.exe:

winners.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close. We are sorry for the inconvenience.

winners.exe - Application Error. The instruction at "0xXXXXXXXX" referenced memory at "0xXXXXXXXX". The memory could not be "read/written". Click on OK to terminate the program.

How is seen in task manager has stopped working.

End Program - winners.exe. This program is not responding.

winners.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

winners.exe - Application Error. The application failed to initialize properly (0xXXXXXXXX). Click OK to terminate the application.

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