How To Remove Onedrive.exe

Discovered as a new vicious computer infection, Onedrive.exe is a new entity which is technically called to be a trojan coin miner or digital money stealer that is compatible to mine Bitcoin, Darknetcoin, Monero, and so on. As per the researchers, this kind of threats can make a user termbling as it turns the PC usage completely disastrous by increasing overall resource usage by more than 70 percent. Upon being installed, the malware runs inside targeted machine in background and keep its processes active discreetly. And a user can hardly be able to detect such vicious threats on their machine unless they scan their system using a powerful security app.

It’s probably common for all victims to have traits like Onedrive.exe installed on their machine without their intention. And this mostly occurs while downloaidng freeware or shareware applications, and installing them without checking its Advance/Custom installation mode. Such free applications often under go bundling process by criminals to hide their malicious codes within them, and the threat technically runs when the installation procedure is started. So, the malware easily end up to result in frequent issues like system crashes, freezing issues, or eruption of BSOD like scary errors.

In most of the cases, the trojans like Onedrive.exe if installed, utilizes the computer resources up to 70 percent, that makes the PC usage terrible. Most of the installed applications or games will keep stammering due to lack of system resources, and this is why the above described issues are obvious to strike screen. In case if your system got stuck with this terrible computer infection and if you need to overcome such issues, we suggest you to identify and remove Onedrive.exe from your machine thoroughly.

Threat Summary

Name: Onedrive.exe
Type: Trojan, spyware
Description: Onedrive.exe is technically said to be a trojan coin miner that makes your PC access terrible by using more than enough of system resources throughout the day.
Distribution: Deceptive freeware or shareware applications, malicious links or ads, malspam campaigns, and many more.
Removal: Get through the guidelines mentioned under this article to identify and remove Onedrive.exe from your machine.

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 Onedrive.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 Onedrive.exe and all detected threats

To delete Onedrive.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 Onedrive.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)