What is WinxOff.exe?

WinxOff.exe is part of Windows and developed by Microsoft Corporation according to the WinxOff.exe version information.

WinxOff.exe's description is "Microsoft Corporation"

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

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

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on WinxOff.exe:

PropertyValue
Product nameWindows
Company nameMicrosoft Corporation
File descriptionMicrosoft Corporation
Internal nameoutput.exe
Original filenameoutput.exe
CommentsMicrosoft Corporation
Legal copyrightMicrosoft Corporation 2018.
Product version1.7.4.3
File version1.7.4.3

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

Product nameWindows
Company nameMicrosoft Corporation
File descriptionMicrosoft Corporation
Internal nameoutput.exe
Original filenameoutput.exe
CommentsMicrosoft Corporation
Legal copyrightMicrosoft Corporation 2018.
Product version1.7.4.3
File version1.7.4.3

Digital signatures [?]

WinxOff.exe is not signed.

VirusTotal report

46 of the 67 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the WinxOff.exe file. That's a 69% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Razy.297005
AegisLab Gen.Variant.Razy!c
AhnLab-V3 Trojan/Win32.Occamy.C2592888
ALYac Gen:Variant.Razy.297005
Antiy-AVL Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit Trojan.Razy.D4882D
Avast Win32:Malware-gen
AVG Win32:Malware-gen
Avira TR/Dropper.MSIL.Gen
AVware Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Baidu Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9996
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Razy.297005
CAT-QuickHeal Trojan.Occamy
CrowdStrike malicious_confidence_100% (D)
Cyren W32/Trojan.IATI-1091
Emsisoft Malware.Generic.CN1 (A)
Endgame malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32 a variant of MSIL/Tiny.AY
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Razy.297005
Fortinet MSIL/Tiny.AY!tr
GData Gen:Variant.Razy.297005
Ikarus Trojan.MSIL.Tiny
K7AntiVirus Trojan ( 0052cf0d1 )
K7GW Trojan ( 0052cf0d1 )
Kaspersky Backdoor.MSIL.Njrat.zx
Malwarebytes Trojan.Dropper
MAX malware (ai score=99)
McAfee Generic.drw
McAfee-GW-Edition Generic.drw
Microsoft Trojan:Win32/Occamy.C
NANO-Antivirus Trojan.Win32.Tiny.farvbj
Paloalto generic.ml
Panda Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360 HEUR/QVM03.0.56ED.Malware.Gen
Rising Trojan.Tiny!8.4D4 (CLOUD)
Sophos Mal/Generic-S
Symantec ML.Attribute.HighConfidence
Tencent Msil.Trojan.Dropper.Wqxa
TrendMicro TROJ_GEN.R011C0ODJ18
TrendMicro-HouseCall TROJ_GEN.R011C0ODJ18
VBA32 Trojan.MSIL.gen.c.1
VIPRE Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
Webroot W32.Malware.Gen
Yandex Trojan.Tiny!+yWj2PBNpp8
Zillya Trojan.Tiny.Win32.5090
ZoneAlarm Backdoor.MSIL.Njrat.zx
46 of the 67 anti-virus programs detected the WinxOff.exe file.

WinxOff.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove WinxOff.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the WinxOff.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that WinxOff.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 WinxOff.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the WinxOff.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 WinxOff.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\WinxOff.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the WinxOff.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If WinxOff.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If WinxOff.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If WinxOff.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 WinxOff.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD567c67baac255c4102f49cb4b43fea6f9
SHA25619aec0f87735a8605a2f10218e6a70978c60034d1cd313b0b55173c8ea1020d8

Error Messages

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

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

winxoff.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.

Microsoft Corporation has stopped working.

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

winxoff.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

What will you do with WinxOff.exe?

To help other users, please let us know what you will do with WinxOff.exe:



What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with WinxOff.exe. 33% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 3 users.

User vote results: There were 1 vote to remove and 2 votes to keep

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with WinxOff.exe. Only 3 users has voted so far so it does not offer a high degree of confidence.

Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

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