How To Remove xmrig.exe

Technically, xmrig.exe is said to be a legitimate open source application that uses computer’s resources to mine Monero digital money. However, the cyber crime master minds are using this app to earn money illegally by infiltrating this app on computers without seeking user’s permission. They actually are using Software Bundling as a technique to embed this app with other freebies and attachments, and spread them over web through open source networks, freeware channels, or through malspam campaigns. So, once such applications are installed or interacted, it starts to do malicious doings on target machines. Even the virus can run intrusive advertisements or promotional campaigns on screen or may gather sensitive information.

For those who are unaware, cryoptomining is a process under which a computer is used for solving various mathematical equations. For each of the solutions, a fraction of digital money is rewarded to users. Means, more the powerful hardware, more rewards can be earned. Also, the entire process can be costly and in order to avoid this issue, the criminals target regular computers on remote basis to earn cryptocurrency. They use to target remote computers for cryptomining process to earn revenue.

However, in case of such attacks, the victims receive no values or rewards, rather than their computer keeps freezing or crashing with BSOD or other vicious error messages. Every time they attempt to access their machine, it fails due to lack of system resources like CPU or GPU. Since the trojans like xmrig.exe often alter some essential settings in targeted machines, its presence on computers can lead to more terrible issues, and therefore it should be removed from compromised machines sooner. To do so, get through the instructions mentioned under this article.

Threat Summary

Name: xmrig.exe
Type: Trojan horse, cryptominer
Description: xmrig.exe is found to be a cryptominer that uses computer’s resources to mine digital currency for its authors.
Distribution: Pop up ads, freeware or shareware installer packages, malicious links or ads, and many more.
Removal: Check through the guidelines section under this article to remove xmrig.exe thoroughly.

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 xmrig.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 xmrig.exe and all detected threats

To delete xmrig.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 xmrig.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)