What is dosearches.exe?

dosearches.exe is digitally signed by Banyan Tree Technology Limited.

dosearches.exe is usually located in the 'c:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\locals~1\temp\' folder.

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

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VirusTotal report

18 of the 47 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the dosearches.exe file. That's a 38% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.StartPage
AVG	MalSign.Generic.A8A
Baidu-International	Trojan.Win32.ELEX.P
Comodo	UnclassifiedMalware
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/ELEX.P
Fortinet	W32/StartPage.CIIJ!tr
Ikarus	Trojan.Win32.StartPage
Jiangmin	Trojan/StartPage.udv
Kaspersky	Trojan.Win32.StartPage.ciij
Kingsoft	Win32.Troj.Generic.a.(kcloud)
Malwarebytes	PUP.Optional.Elex.A
McAfee	PUP-FDW!0D6E516B091F
McAfee-GW-Edition	PUP-FDW!0D6E516B091F
Panda	Trj/Genetic.gen
Sophos	Generic PUA CL
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.F47V1022
VBA32	Trojan.StartPage
VIPRE	Elex Installer (fs)

dosearches.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\locals~1\temp\dosearches.exe

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

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

Filename variants

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

• dosearches[1].exe

Folder name variants

dosearches.exe may also be located in other folders than c:\docume~1\%USERNAME%\locals~1\temp\. The most common variants are listed below:

• c:\users\%USERNAME%\appdata\local\microsoft\windows\temporary internet files\content.ie5\nh3wlz42\

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