How To Remove Miner1.exe Trojan

Miner1.exe virus is said to be a vicious trojan horse infection or more precisely a coin miner application. While speaking about the original Miner1.exe file, its basically an executable process which is commonly known as ChromeM1N3R and belongs to a software Chrome M13NR developed by Kibernetika LTD or CM. Also, the original Miner1.exe file’s location can be tracked in Documents folder. This means, in case if a user somehow locate this file’s location is in any other directory like /temp or /Windows, folder, then it all indicates to presence of a malware.

Mostly, the Miner1.exe trojans are specific malware kind that use to mine various digital currency like Monero, DarkCoin, Bitcoin, and so on by increasing the usage of GPU or CPU resources. And due to this high end consumption of computer’s resources, the system and its applications are expected stutter while being used and displays tons of annoying messages, errors, and more terrible issues as well. In such instances, the victims are quite expected to see their machine turning useless for their requirements.

Keeping these apart, a trojan is always assumed as the most hectic malware kind because it can do even more than just affecting system performance. In many cases, a trojan alters system security aspects and administrative areas. As a result, it’s common for vulnerabilities to be easily exposed to criminals taking advantage of which more malware traits can be installed. Also, the hackers can manage to access the infected computer remotely to steal sensitive information like email addresses, banking credentials, login credentials, and so on. To keep such traits away, it’s highly suggested to remove Miner1.exe as soon as possible.

Technical Summary

Name: Miner1.exe
Type: Trojan horse infection, Coin miner application, and so on.
Description: Miner1.exe is found to be a crypto currency miner or application that increases the overall usage of system resources to mine digital currency. However, its presence impacts almost all applications which technically fails due to lack of required resources.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installers, bundled packages, javascript files, and many more.
Removal: In order to identify and delete Miner1.exe from a compromised computer, we highly appreciate you to learn some effective guidelines mentioned ahead.

More details about Miner1.exe and its consequences

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 Miner1.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 Miner1.exe and all detected threats

To delete Miner1.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 Miner1.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)