How To Remove Cmimageworker.exe

Have your system started to run unexpectedly slower or sluggish? Are you able to see error messages or other freezing issues while accessing your machine? Is your security app discovered Cmimageworker.exe as a vicious element, but failed to eliminate it completely? If yes is your answer to these questions, then this article is for you. Cmimageworker.exe is basically an exe file that may is associated with Windows operating system, and belongs to some useful software. However, if this file seems problematic, then it must be tackled with some proper solutions as soon as possible. Reading this article easily makes you to learn how Cmimageworker.exe can be dangerous and how it should be tackled.

Based on various researches, Cmimageworker.exe might be an essential file to use it on a Windows computer, but many threat actors use the file’s name and its popularity to disguise their malicious codes. In specific case of malicious Cmimageworker.exe copy, it would be a trojan, or most probably a coin miner application which can destroy your system functions drastically. Being a coin miner, Cmimageworker.exe will misuse your computer’s resources like CPU or GPU to mine digital currency, and this way the criminals get benefitted.

Being installed on a targeted computers, Cmimageworker.exe can use more than 70 percent of resources from computer to do its malicious functions. However, this causes most of other applications or games to keep stammering or stuttering. As a result, the system crashes or freezes frequently with showing BSOD error messages. As a resultm, the system access becomes terrible in no time. Even user’s personal data or details can also be stolen and misused by cyber crimianls for illicit functionsl. Therefore, the term Cmimageworker.exe should be identified and removed from compromised system soon.

Threat Summary

Name: Cmimageworker.exe
Type: Trojan, digital money miner
Description: Cmimageworker.exe is said to be a trojan coin miner or cryptominer that misuses system resoruces to mine digital money. However it makes the PC access terrible for users.
Distribution: Deceptive pop up ads, freeware or shareware installer, malicious sites or links, and many more.
Removal: Check through the guidelines or methods under this article to identify and remove Cmimageworker.exe from compromised computers.

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 Cmimageworker.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 Cmimageworker.exe and all detected threats

To delete Cmimageworker.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 Cmimageworker.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)