What is wupdater.exe?

wupdater.exe is usually located in the 'c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\temp\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

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

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
Agnitum	Trojan.CoinMiner!/v5ollrq++k
AhnLab-V3	Unwanted/Win32.BitCoinMiner
AntiVir	TR/Zusy.79275.2
Avast	Win32:BitCoinMiner-FE [Trj]
AVG	MalSign.Generic.B95
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
Comodo	UnclassifiedMalware
DrWeb	DLOADER.Trojan
Emsisoft	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275 (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/CoinMiner.JO
F-Secure	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
Fortinet	W32/CoinMiner.JO!tr
GData	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
Ikarus	Win32.SuspectCrc
Malwarebytes	BitcoinMiner
McAfee	Artemis!147E4846AEFD
McAfee-GW-Edition	Artemis!147E4846AEFD
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Zusy.79275
Panda	Suspicious file
Qihoo-360	Win32/Trojan.380
Symantec	Trojan.ADH.2
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.F47V0114
VBA32	suspected of Trojan.Downloader.gen.h
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT

wupdater.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\temp\wupdater.exe

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

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

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