How To Remove Host_uuidcontroller.exe

Host_uuidcontroller.exe is found as a trojan horse infection that belongs to cryptominer’s family. Cryptomining is a process in which a trojan utilizes computer’s resources to mine digital currencies like Darknetcoin, Bitcoin, Monero, and so on. And since this process requires a lot of resources, it’s not possible for criminals to do it only by using just their own computers. So, they use other computer’s resoruces to earn illicit profit for their own, and cause the victims to suffer data loss, terrible system performance, and more drastic issues. So, having a computer infected by Host_uuidcontroller.exe will surely cause users to fail while accessing their machine for their own tasks.

In most of the cases, the Host_uuidcontroller.exe like entities are promoted over web through social networking sites, email spam marketing tricks, freeware or shareware bundling, website or its link’s embedding, and many more. In all these cases, a user is represented with a helpful appearing object that claims to turn user’s sessions enhanced and without any charge, however, once the interaction is made, the whole PC starts to suffer. Once the Host_uuidcontroller.exe manage to intrude on computer, it does a number of unwanted modifications in computer settings, its browsers and security applications as well. This is why, the Host_uuidcontroller.exe easily manage to hide itself deep inside computer, and run its processes without being detected easily.

If you notice your machine is running abnormal and throwing frequent error messages, BSOD, or system gets crashed or freezing throughout the day, then your system might be infected by Host_uuidcontroller.exe. In order to overcome such issues, it’s highly necessary to identify and remove Host_uuidcontroller.exe from compromised computers as quick as possible. To learn detailed information about removal of Host_uuidcontroller.exe and prevention tips, we suggest you to get through guidelines under this article.

Threat Summary

Name: Host_uuidcontroller.exe
Type: Trojan, coin miner, spyware
Description: Host_uuidcontroller.exe is a trojan horse infection which impacts your online sessions terribly and leads you to suffer high end issues throughout the day.
Distribution: Malicious links or ads, freeware or shareware installer packages, email attachments or links, and so on.
Removal: We suggest you checking through the guidelines under this article to identify and remove Host_uuidcontroller.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 Host_uuidcontroller.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 Host_uuidcontroller.exe and all detected threats

To delete Host_uuidcontroller.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 Host_uuidcontroller.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)