How To Remove mmtask2.exe

Cryptominers nowadays become one of the most notorious malware form under Trojan horse classification. In such a long list, mmtask2.exe is a new addtion which is recently added. This kind of threats probably make use of system resoruces like CPU or GPU without seeking permission from users and makes the PC access terrible. If you are not aware of cryptomining, it’s basically a process in which criminals use to mine digital money, by utilizing resources on targeted computers. Since the usage of resources are very high, the infected machine keeps suffering throughout the day. And this is why it’s mandatory to remove mmtask2.exe from computers. To learn more, read through this article.

As mentioned above, mmtask2.exe is one of the cryptominer that is recently discovered by security analysts. Upon getting installed, the malware do a number of internal modifications in system like modifying registry settings, startup settings, browser settings, security apps, and more. Doing so, it becomes unidentifiable and manage to run its illicit process in background. However, a user can see the process, its location and resource usage under Task Manager. This is actually a way to find out if this malicious trait is running inside a computer.

In case if you end up to see mmtask2.exe on your machine and eating more than enough of system resources, then your machine is actually being used for cryptomining. This is probably unsafe for your personal concerns as you can’t be able to access your own mahcine. The system, will keep freezing or stammering every time when you try accessing your own applications or games. Even your personal details can also be stolen and misused for illcit purposes. All this indicates that the threat should be instantly removed from compromised computers.

Threat Specifications

Name: mmtask2.exe
Type: Trojan, cryptominer
Description: Termed as a cryptominer, mmtask2.exe can cause the whole system to suffer throughout the day as it eats system resoruces at high extent, and the machine freezes frequently.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware installer packages, malicious links or ads, malspam campaigns, and so on.
Removal: In order to identify and remove mmtask2.exe from compromised computers, we appreciate you checking out the guidelines under this article.

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 mmtask2.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 mmtask2.exe and all detected threats

To delete mmtask2.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 mmtask2.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)