What is salus.sys?

salus.sys is part of Windows (R) Win 7 DDK driver and developed by Windows (R) Win 7 DDK provider according to the salus.sys version information.

salus.sys's description is "NetFilter SDK WFP Driver (WPP)"

salus.sys is digitally signed by tal ltd.

salus.sys is usually located in the 'c:\%USERNAME%\system32\drivers\' folder.

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected salus.sys.

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VirusTotal report

17 of the 57 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the salus.sys file. That's a 30% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Adware.Salus.I
ALYac	Adware.Salus.I
Antiy-AVL	GrayWare[NetTool:not-a-virus]/Win64.NetFilter.a
AVG	Generic.6FE
BitDefender	Adware.Salus.I
DrWeb	Tool.NetFilter.313
Emsisoft	Adware.Salus.I (B)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win64/NetFilter.A potentially unsafe
F-Secure	Adware.Salus.I
GData	Adware.Salus.I
Kaspersky	not-a-virus:AdWare.Win32.Sulas.a
MicroWorld-eScan	Adware.Salus.I
nProtect	Adware.Salus.I
Symantec	Trojan.Zbot
Tencent	Win32.Adware.Sulas.Ecar
TrendMicro	ADW_SULAS
TrendMicro-HouseCall	ADW_SULAS

salus.sys removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\%USERNAME%\system32\drivers\salus.sys

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

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

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