How To Remove Helperhost.exe

The Helperhost.exe is basically a file or or process that is known as Nvidia Smart Maximise Helper Host that beings to a software Nvidia Smart Maximise Helper Host created by Nvidia. Means, if your system is running with aforementioned applicaiton, then it’s common to see the file as an active process through Task Manager. You can justify the legit file through looking its location which is within Program Files directory. Hwoever the file size can be vary from depending on OS versions. However, in case if the file seem associated with some vicious tasks, then it might be a trojan or a cryptominer that should be tackled soon.

Although, Helperhost.exe is a legitimate file that is associated with a legit software, still many criminals use to disguise their malicious codes or applications by using legit names like Helperhost.exe. In such cases, if the cryptominer gets installed on computer, obviouslly the Helperhost.exe file will eat more than enough of system resources like CPU or GPU that will cause your system running unexpectedly slower. The location of file may also be seen varied from what mentioned for a legti file. In such instances, you need to fix up your machine as soon as possible.

Being a trojan miner Helperhost.exe can be highly disrupting to your computer’s resources as it eats more than 70 percent of CPU or GPU for mining cryptocurrencies like Monero, Bitcoin, Darkcoin, and so on. However, this causes other applications or games to suffer due to lack of resoruces, thus the system crashes or freezes with scary error messages, even BSOD error can be thrown as well. To fix those issues or to remove Helperhost.exe from a compromised computer, we suggest you to refer to guidelines under this article.

Threat Summary

Name: Helperhost.exe
Type: Trojan, Cryptominer
Description: Helperhost.exe is discovered as a vicious computer infection that may lead users to suffer terrible issues specially due to lack of resources.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installer, malicious sites or links, fake adverts or pop ups, and many more.
Removal: Check through the guidelines section under this article to identify and remove Helperhost.exe.

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 Helperhost.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 Helperhost.exe and all detected threats

To delete Helperhost.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 Helperhost.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)