What is xates.exe?

xates.exe is usually located in the 'C:\ProgramData\xates\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

21 of the 56 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the xates.exe file. That's a 38% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.264544
Agnitum	PUA.Toolbar.Linkury!
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.Application.Graftor.D40960
Avast	Win32:Dropper-gen [Drp]
AVG	Generic37.SGL
Avira	TR/Dropper.Gen
BitDefender	Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.264544
DrWeb	Trojan.Revizer.973
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Toolbar.Linkury.AN potentially unwanted
GData	Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.264544
K7AntiVirus	Adware ( 004da8f71 )
K7GW	Adware ( 004da8f71 )
Malwarebytes	PUP.Optional.Linkury.ShrtCln
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.PWSZbot.hc
MicroWorld-eScan	Gen:Variant.Application.Graftor.264544
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.Revizer.dzmzgx
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM10.1.Malware.Gen
Rising	PE:Malware.Generic(Thunder)!1.A1C4 [F]
Symantec	Suspicious.Cloud.9
Zillya	Adware.BrowseFox.Win32.286835

xates.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   C:\ProgramData\xates\xates.exe

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

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

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