What is wup.exe?

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

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

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VirusTotal report

36 of the 68 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the wup.exe file. That's a 53% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
AhnLab-V3	Trojan/Win32.Miner.C2451157
ALYac	Misc.Riskware.BitCoinMiner
Antiy-AVL	RiskWare[RiskTool]/Win32.BitMiner
Avast	Win64:Malware-gen
AVG	Win64:Malware-gen
AVware	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.Miner.ZZ5
ClamAV	Multios.Trojan.CryptocoinMiner-6448864-1
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_80% (D)
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W64/XMRIG.FBMW-7745
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win64/CoinMiner.CS potentially unwanted
Fortinet	Riskware/BitMiner.WIN64
GData	Win32.Riskware.BitMiner.A
Ikarus	PUA.CoinMiner
Invincea	heuristic
K7AntiVirus	Adware ( 005234cd1 )
K7GW	Adware ( 005234cd1 )
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:HEUR:RiskTool.Win32.BitMiner.gen
Malwarebytes	Trojan.BitCoinMiner
MAX	malware (ai score=95)
McAfee	RDN/Generic PUP.z
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win64.Dropper.bh
Microsoft	Trojan:Win32/Tiggre!plock
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/CI.A
Qihoo-360	Win32/Virus.RiskTool.435
Sophos	XMRig Miner (PUA)
Symantec	Trojan Horse
TrendMicro	Coinminer_CryptoNight.SM-WIN64
TrendMicro-HouseCall	Coinminer_CryptoNight.SM-WIN64
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Adware.Coinminer.786944
Webroot	PUA.Gen
ZoneAlarm	not-a-virus:HEUR:RiskTool.Win32.BitMiner.gen

wup.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\wup.exe

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

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

Filename variants

wup.exe may also use other filenames. The most common variants are listed below:

• xme64-252.exe

Folder name variants

wup.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\downloads\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\temp\wup\

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