diff --git a/mutants/mutant-5/swen90006/machine/Machine.java b/mutants/mutant-5/swen90006/machine/Machine.java
index 9bf57316d1c736ea2bd1c62bd6df3c6c0282f331..0f4306da80b480d8ae0fdb07ffbafd10cf35c44c 100644
--- a/mutants/mutant-5/swen90006/machine/Machine.java
+++ b/mutants/mutant-5/swen90006/machine/Machine.java
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ public class Machine
 	continue;
       }
 
-      instructionsExecuted++;
+      instructionsExecuted--;
       /* now  tokenize by splitting on whitespace */
       toks = inst.split("\\s+");