What is maintainer.exe?

maintainer.exe is digitally signed by Framed Display.

maintainer.exe is usually located in the 'C:\ProgramData\ecbaef90-5696-41e1-a1c3-3e8112ce2840\' folder.

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

If you have additional information about the file, please share it with the FreeFixer users by posting a comment at the bottom of this page.

Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on maintainer.exe:

PropertyValue
Product version1.0.5409.32969
File version1.0.5409.32969

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

Product version1.0.5409.32969
File version1.0.5409.32969

Digital signatures [?]

maintainer.exe has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameFramed Display
Certificate issuer nameVeriSign Class 3 Code Signing 2010 CA
Certificate serial number0d3806b0a949749dbcbc82c1d4c58407

VirusTotal report

19 of the 54 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the maintainer.exe file. That's a 35% detection rate.

ScannerDetection Name
Ad-Aware Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
AhnLab-V3 Adware/Win32.SwiftBrowse
Antiy-AVL GrayWare[AdWare:not-a-virus]/Win32.Kranet
Avast Win32:PUP-gen [PUP]
AVG Generic.7F2
Avira Adware/BrowseFox.aog
AVware Yontoo (fs)
BitDefender Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
ClamAV Win.Adware.Agent-22685
DrWeb Trojan.BPlug.281
Emsisoft Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1 (B)
ESET-NOD32 Win32/BrowseFox.V
F-Secure Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
GData Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
MicroWorld-eScan Gen:Variant.Adware.SwiftBrowse.1
NANO-Antivirus Riskware.Win32.Kranet.dgiwfc
Qihoo-360 Win32/Virus.Adware.55f
VBA32 AdWare.Kranet
VIPRE Yontoo (fs)
19 of the 54 anti-virus programs detected the maintainer.exe file.

maintainer.exe removal instructions

The instructions below shows how to remove maintainer.exe with help from the FreeFixer removal tool. Basically, you install FreeFixer, scan your computer, check the maintainer.exe file for removal, restart your computer and scan it again to verify that maintainer.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 maintainer.exe in the scan result and tick the checkbox next to the maintainer.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 maintainer.exe in the scan result.
    Red arrow point on the unwanted file
    C:\ProgramData\ecbaef90-5696-41e1-a1c3-3e8112ce2840\maintainer.exe
  4. Scroll down to the bottom of the scan result and press the Fix button. FreeFixer will now delete the maintainer.exe file.
    Screenshot of Fix button
  5. Restart your computer.
  6. Start FreeFixer and scan your computer again. If maintainer.exe still remains in the scan result, proceed with the next step. If maintainer.exe is gone from the scan result you're done.
  7. If maintainer.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 maintainer.exe no longer appear in the scan result.
Please select the option that best describe your thoughts on the removal instructions given above








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Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD5f87ce3644a6a9fe1aa02f8f7b9874b95
SHA256667e63dd322fb8aaf4c715e6faf24751e574b96b937d3066ee36467cb9f3e44e

Error Messages

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

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

maintainer.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.

maintainer.exe has stopped working.

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

maintainer.exe is not a valid Win32 application.

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

What will you do with maintainer.exe?

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



What did other users do?

The poll result listed below shows what users chose to do with maintainer.exe. 89% have voted for removal. Based on votes from 65 users.

User vote results: There were 58 votes to remove and 7 votes to keep

NOTE: Please do not use this poll as the only source of input to determine what you will do with maintainer.exe.

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.

I'm reading all new comments so don't hesitate to post a question about the file. If I don't have the answer perhaps another user can help you.

Venezie writes

0 thumbs

Read the detection rate, you can update it, Super Anti-Spyware detected it as well.

# 6 Dec 2014, 4:40

ana writes

0 thumbs

hey, i just deleted this thing, my computer was running wild.. all okay now :)

# 25 Dec 2014, 20:37

Anibal writes

0 thumbs

Worked fine

# 27 Dec 2014, 18:15

Roger Karlsson writes

1 thumb

Good to hear you got this adware file off you machines.

# 9 Jan 2015, 2:01

Michal writes

1 thumb

I have this maintainer.exe and it drives my comp crazy... As soon as I turn it off in the task manager everything's fine so hope this will work to remove it.

# 11 Jan 2015, 6:59

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