How To Remove Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe

Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe is found to be another vicious process which can be seen on Windows computer through Task Manager. According to researchers have found, this process is nothing to do with Windows operating system, but a Trojan coin miner application that use computer’s resources to mine digital currency without seeking any approval. The cryptocurrency which it can use to mine from a computer includes Monero, Bitcoin, Darkcoin or Ethereum. Means, the trojan if active on your computer, can devastate your way to access the system by affecting its overall performance. Even a number of error messages can also be thrown on computer. This article includes description about the threat and how it can be resolved on an infected computers.

The unwanted presence of Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe can be highly disastrous for overall system performance as this kind of miner applications can utilize a high amount of resouces. Technically, Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe can use more than 70 percent of CPU and GPU resources, which significantly impacts the performance of your machine throughout the day. Most of your installed applications will start to crash or freeze while being used. Sometimes, essential system files can also be seen automatically deleted from computers, which throws data missing errors.

In order to locate the presence of Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe on a computer, a user can look thoroughly into Task Manager. If you see the process or similar ones active, then it indicates your system is not safe at all. Many of the trojans can also create some loopholes or backdoor on computer with the help of which the attackers can access your machine in unauthorized manner. Also, your personal details including browsing history, social or banking credentials, geolocations, etc can be tracked which can be shared and misused by cyber crime master minds for illicit purposes. To keep such things to happen, it’s highly advised to remove Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe from a compromised computer soon.

Technical Summary

Name: Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe
Type: Trojan horse infection, Coin miner
Detected As: Trojan:Win32/Coinminer
Description: Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe is identified to be a vicious computer threat or more specifically a trojan horse infection which can eat enough of system resources to generate cryptocurrency revenue. So, its presence on computer can never be safe and should be tackled as soon as possible.
Distribution: Software Bundling, Intrusive advertisements, redirects to shady online sources, bundled software installers, and many more.
Removal: Check the guidelines section under this article to remove Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.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 Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.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 Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.exe and all detected threats

To delete Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.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 Microsoft_store_apps_noicon.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)