The executable explorer.exe has been detected as malware by 36 anti-virus scanners. It is set to automatically start when a user logs into Windows via the current user run registry key under the display name ‘08f4dc96bbb7af09d1a37fe35c75a42f’. This backdoor trojan may be used to conduct distributed denial of service attacks, or used to install additional trojans or other forms of malicious software as well as can steal your sensitive information. Although this file uses the name explorer.exe, this is NOT the File Explorer program distributed with the Windows OS that is found in C:\Windows.