What is sweed.exe?

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

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

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

Scanner	Detection Name
Ad-Aware	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
AegisLab	Backdoor.W32.Generic!c
ALYac	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
Antiy-AVL	Trojan/Win32.TSGeneric
Arcabit	Trojan.Generic.D1D43C00
Avast	Win32:Malware-gen
AVG	Win32:Malware-gen
Avira	TR/AD.njLogger.dtesz
Baidu	Win32.Trojan.WisdomEyes.16070401.9500.9999
BitDefender	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
CAT-QuickHeal	Trojan.IGENERIC
CrowdStrike	malicious_confidence_100% (W)
Cylance	Unsafe
DrWeb	Trojan.PWS.Stealer.19347
eGambit	Unsafe.AI_Score_98%
Emsisoft	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208 (B)
Endgame	malicious (high confidence)
ESET-NOD32	a variant of MSIL/Kryptik.NXQ
F-Secure	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
Fortinet	W32/Generic!tr.bdr
GData	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
Ikarus	Trojan-Dropper
Invincea	heuristic
Jiangmin	Backdoor.Generic.aqor
K7AntiVirus	Trojan ( 0052f47e1 )
K7GW	Trojan ( 0052f47e1 )
Kaspersky	HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.Generic
Malwarebytes	Spyware.AgentTesla.MSIL.Generic
MAX	malware (ai score=96)
McAfee	RDN/Generic BackDoor
McAfee-GW-Edition	BehavesLike.Win32.Generic.dc
Microsoft	VirTool:Win32/VBInject
MicroWorld-eScan	Trojan.GenericKD.30686208
NANO-Antivirus	Trojan.Win32.NjLogger.faxota
Paloalto	generic.ml
Panda	Trj/GdSda.A
Qihoo-360	HEUR/QVM03.0.DA8A.Malware.Gen
SentinelOne	static engine - malicious
Sophos	Mal/Generic-S
Symantec	Trojan.Gen.2
Tencent	Win32.Backdoor.Generic.Ecuc
TrendMicro	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DE218
TrendMicro-HouseCall	TROJ_GEN.R002C0DE218
VIPRE	Trojan.Win32.Generic!BT
ViRobot	Trojan.Win32.Z.Vbinject.233472
ZoneAlarm	HEUR:Backdoor.Win32.Generic

sweed.exe removal instructions

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

   

   

   c:\downloads\sweed.exe

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

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

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