What is steel.exe?

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

Some of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal detected steel.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.

VirusTotal report

42 of the 69 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the steel.exe file. That's a 61% detection rate.

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Win32.Induc.A
AhnLab-V3	Win32/Induc
Arcabit	Win32.Induc.A
Avast	Win32:Induc
AVG	Win32:Induc
Avira	W32/Induc.ienb
BitDefender	Win32.Induc.A
CAT-QuickHeal	W32.Induc.A
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_90% (W)
Cybereason	malicious.730910
Cylance	Unsafe
Cyren	W32/GenBl.A5F21A17!Olympus
DrWeb	Win32.Induc
Emsisoft	Win32.Induc.A (B)
Endgame	malicious (moderate confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of Win32/Induc.A
F-Secure	Malware.W32/Induc.ienb
Fortinet	W32/Induc.A
GData	Win32.Induc.A
Ikarus	W32.Induc
Kaspersky	Virus.Win32.Induc.b
Malwarebytes	Virus.InducVirus
MAX	malware (ai score=100)
McAfee	W32/Induc
McAfee-GW-Edition	W32/Induc
Microsoft	Virus:Win32/Vigorf.A
MicroWorld-eScan	Win32.Induc.A
NANO-Antivirus	Virus.Win32.Induc.dffkeg
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Generic Malware
Qihoo-360	Win32/Virus.739
Rising	Virus.Induc!1.9B53 (CLASSIC)
Sophos	W32/Induc-A
Symantec	W32.Induc.A
Tencent	Win32.Virus.Induc.Lpbe
Trapmine	malicious.high.ml.score
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R002C0CB219
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0CB219
VBA32	Virus.Win32.Induc.c
Webroot	W32.Virus.A
Yandex	Win32.Induc
ZoneAlarm	Virus.Win32.Induc.b

steel.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\steel.exe

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

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

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