How To Remove Cpuminer.exe

Cpuminer.exe is a vicious exe file that is is associated to an application named CPUMiner. This application is typically used by cyber crime master minds to mine Bitcoins which helps them generating a large volume of revenue. In order to do so, they use deceptive marketing method called Bundling, through which the trojan is installed through browsers without seeking any consent in prior. Considering these traits, Cpuminer.exe can also be classified as a PUP or Potentially Unwanted Application. In this tutorial, we will learn more about Cpuminer.exe and its impacts along with how to remove it from a compromised system.

If Cpuminer.exe somehow manage to intrude inside your computer, you can expect to face off various terrible issues which stops you to access your applications or games easily. Since most of the coin miner applications like Cpuminer.exe use to increase the usage of CPU or GPU resources, it’s obvious for other applications to keep stammering throughout the PC usage sessions. Since the vicious processes basically runs in background, it’s really hard for users to identify what actually happened to their machine. However, checking the task manager’s processes section can easily allow them to see Cpuminer.exe as an active and high resource eating process.

If you end up determining that your system is infected by Cpuminer.exe, then you must try to stop that process and remove associated files completely to resolve the issue. If not, your system access will be blocked throughout the day. Not only system performance based issues will disrupt you, but also more other attackers or malware may manage to sneak inside your system through created vulnerabilities. This can destroy your personal privacy by keeping an eye over all your inputs, key preferences, and other details. This way, your online or offline privacy would also not be safe after getting infected by Cpuminer.exe.

How do Cpuminer.exe is spread over web?

As it’s already mentioned that the applications like Cpuminer.exe mostly get injected on computers while installing third party applications. And the most common used process is named as Bundling. Under this technique, various third party free applications are embedded with malicious codes, then spread over web for being widely downloaded/installed. In more other cases, a malspam campaign based attachments may also bring Cpuminer.exe like traits, which if interacted by users, may lead to activation of crypto currency miner. So, just be cautious next time while dealing with unreliable online channels. And in case if you notice your system is infected, let’s learn some guidelines to remove Cpuminer.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 Cpuminer.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 Cpuminer.exe and all detected threats

To delete Cpuminer.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 Cpuminer.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)