How To Remove Honeyminer.exe

Honeyminer.exe is listed in the list Trojan Coin Miner applications that stealthily get installed on computers through employed deceptive techniques by malware authors. Once, such applications are installed on computers, it starts to mine crypto currency for its creators by using targeted computer’s resources. Obviously such resources can be computer’s CPU or GPU which probably create hassles for users while running installed applications, games and so on. Therefore, its’ quite necessary to identify and remove Honeyminer.exe from compromised computers sooner. Under this article, we have included detailed information about Honeyminer.exe and how its associated traits can be completely eliminated from computers.

Being a trojan coin miner application, Honeyminer.exe mostly assail on computers without being noticed and makes the PC access terrible. Obviously, it will increase the maximum usage of resources like CPU or GPU by more than 70 percent which leads issues to most of the installed applications or games. Actually, whenever such applications will be launched for personal usage, it will start stammering throughout the day to cause crash or freezing issues. The victims in such cases won’t be easily able to access their own computer unless the threat is completely eliminated.

Although, trojans are considered as the most hectic threat to impact computer usage, also it can be a hassle to impacts data or identity. Actually, following installation on computers, the malware use to alter a number of internal settings on computer in registry section, MBR, root directory, and many more to make itself running just after the system boots. These modifications increases the present vulnerabilities that can be exposed and misused by cyber criminals to steal personal data or identity. This indicates, the hackers can manage to take over your computer remotely and may exfiltrate any data as per their requirements. In order to do prevent such things to happen a user should be highly cautious against such intrusions.

Threat Summary

Name: Honeyminer.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner, spyware
Description: Honeyminer.exe is found to be a highly precarious computer infection or a threat that impacts the whole PC usage sessions drastically. It uses more than 70 percent of computer resources to mine digital currencies.
Distribution: deceptive pop up ads, freeware or shareware packages, and many more.
Removal: In order to identify and remove Honeyminer.exe from a compromised computers, mentioned here guidelines can be effective.

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 Honeyminer.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 Honeyminer.exe and all detected threats

To delete Honeyminer.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 Honeyminer.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)