How To Remove conhost.exe

conhost.exe in windows basically stands for Console Windows Host process, that might seem essential, however it can be a malicious process as well if some trojan end up replacing it or just run as additional copy. In such instances, the malicious conhost.exe might be a cryptominer which is basically designed by cyber crime master minds to mine cryptocurrency named Monero. The criminals use to trick users into downloading and installing such vicious application on computers, that further helps its authors to earn cyber crime revenue. Cryptominers are specific malware that use computer’s resources to mine digital currency when a user log into their Windows OS. So, obviously, the victims are expected to see diminished performance of their system as well.

Speaking about the term digital currency mining, it mainly involves solving complicated mathematical problems. And in order to do so, the crypto currency miner uses a large volume of CPU or GPU of computer while running in background. But a user often remains unaware of such running background processes on their system. Since the applications like conhost.exe uses a high volume of CPU, it easily leads other apps or games to stammer or freeze due to lack of system resources.

In addition, the active and high resource eating processes may also lead the CPU to overheat, that can further cause hardware damage or high electricity bills as well. And in all such aspects, the victims will receive no benefits at all. Even they won’t be able to access their own computer easily like they used to did it ever before, which is really a hard hassle. In addition, since most of the trojans often runs in background and alter various internal settings as well, it’s common for users to suffer more terrible loss in form of data loss or identity theft.

Technical Summary

Name: conhost.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner, spyware
Associated Process: Console Window Host
Problems: Increased usage of CPU or GPU, diminished overall system performance, frequent crashes or freezing issues, and many more.
Distribution: Malspam campaigns, third party installer setups, malicious links or ads, and many more.
Removal: In order to remove conhost.exe from compromised computers, we suggest you to check and follow guidelines mentioned under this article.

As mentioned earlier, cyber-criminals have expertise to use some of the services offered by Windows System process as vulnerabilities. They usually mimic a legitimate system process with name of the Trojan or malware. They create the process of a Trojan same as some legitimate system process. In some cases, they easily get differentiated from legit processes however; some cases can be extremely difficult to distinguish.

If you examine the Windows process category in the Task Manager, you would easily notice the legitimate system process. However, if you notice duplicate files process, one must be a malware. This type of Trojan or malware continuously mines bitcoin or other crypto-currencies and this is a very high resource extensive process. The overall speed and performance of the PC gets extremely slow and sluggish. For depth enquiry, you can right click on the doubtful process and choose file location option in order to see the associated program. As a simple rule, if the file is stored in Windows/System32 folder, it is legitimate.

On the other hand, if the process is stored in the user’s processes or “Open the file” for the process leads to any random directories then it is doubtful. You should immediately scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool. Remember that manual removal of harmful process related to Trojan or suspicious files are very difficult due to its deep intrusion and integration with the OS.

How to Remove conhost.exe

The first thing that you should do is to scan your work-station with a powerful anti-malware tool and that will be very helpful. On the other hand, if you have backup of your important data in any external clean location such as hard-drive or pen-drive etc. then formatting the infected hard-drive of the PC may also work for you. Remember that formatting the hard-drive may work for one PC but if the infected PC is connected with a network of PCs then this step will go in vain.

Click on the “Download” button to use “SpyHunter” anti-malware tool to clean your workstation.

 

• On click on the download button, the file named as “Spyhunter-Intaller.exe” gets downloaded.

• In the downloads dialog box, choose “SpyHunter Installer.exe” and open the file.

• Select “Yes” in the “User Account Control” dialog box.

• Select the language you prefer and press on “OK” to get next step

• In order to process the installation, press on “Continue”

• Accept the privacy policy and end user agreement.

• Open “SpyHunter” by locating its icon on the desktop or search it on Windows “Start” menu.

The next step is to use “SpyHunter” for PC scanning and malware removal.

• Go to the “Home tab” and press on “Start Scan” button

Wait for the few minutes to scan gets completed. On completion, it scan result report is presented on the screen.

⇒ Register for the Spyhunter and remove conhost.exe and all detected threats

To delete conhost.exe and all associated threats found through the system scan, you need to register for the SpyHunter:

• Click on the register button available on the top-right corner of the program window,and then click on buy button.
• You will automatically be redirected to the purchasing page, enter your customer detail and valid email address,
• After the successful payment, you will receive email confirmation message. The email contains the account information such as usernames and passwords and so on,
• Thereafter, enter the same detail in the Account tab of the settings section of the program. Now, you can avail full features and protection to your system.

⇒ Steps to remove conhost.exe and other detected threats:

Spyhunter antivirus tool categorizes the type of objects detected during system scans in total five sections – “Malware“, “PUPs” (Potentially Unwanted Programs), “Privacy“, “Vulnerabilities“, and “Whitelisted objects“

Select the object you want to remove and then click on Next button (you can quarantine an object so that you can anytime restore it to the system using restore feature)