How To Remove Kryptex4.exe

As per the information collected by security researchers, Kryptex4.exe is a new malware application that can be referred under Trojan coin miners. This specific malware kind is mostly created by cyber crime master minds to mine digital money from targeted computers. This kind of threat actually use a large proportion of system’s resources to mine digital money for its authors. Technically, it’s compatible to mine almost all well known digital currency variants such as Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin, and so on. As a result, the whole system starts to struggle due to lack of resoruces and users end up to face off failure while accessing their machine.

As already mentioned, a trojan coin miner mostly use a large proportion of computer’s resources like CPU or GPU to perform its malicious tasks. All these things probably starts within a compromised computer when a user end up to click or interact with some malicious trait present over web in form of malicious links, advertisements, freeware or shareware installer packages, and many more. These objects are often distributed by cyber criminals using Software Bindling and other social engineering tricks. It’s quite common and easy for victims to get tricked by such traits and end up to believe them helpful, however such installation easily leads to installation of malicious traits inside computer.

So, whenever the system is used for carrying PC usage sessions, the whole system starts to crash or freeze frequently. Since the cryptominers use more than 75 percent of computer’s resources to do its malicious tasks, it leaves no resource for other applications, following which it becomes common to face off terrible problems in face of error messages or BSOD throughout the day. To control such things, it’s recommended to identify and remove Kryptex4.exe from computers as soon as possible.

Threat Summary

Name: Kryptex4.exe
Type: Trojan, cryptominer
Description: Kryptex4.exe is one of the malicious trait that can be referred as a cryptominer and is used by criminals to mine crypto currency to earn digital money illegally.
Distribution: Malicious links or ads, freeware or shareware installer packages, email attachments or links, and so on.
Removal: Check through the guidelines under this article to identify and remove Kryptex4.exe from compromised computers easily.

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 Kryptex4.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 Kryptex4.exe and all detected threats

To delete Kryptex4.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 Kryptex4.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)