How To Remove PIB.exe

While looking through PIB.exe for the first time, it appears to be an executable file which keeps running in background and can be seen through Windows Task Manager. Technically, this process is known as Websearch Toolbar Plugin Server, and belongs to a browser toolbar named WebSearch Toolbar. This indicates, if you have installed this toolbar on your Windows, then you can expect to see PIB.exe as an active process. However, this process is not an essential part of your Windows system. This means, if the process seems affecting your computer’s performance, then it should be removed sooner.

When installed, the file’s location can be seen within C:\program files however it size may vary depending upon OS variants. Since this process has no visible window, it can only be seen through processes tab in Task Manager. Although, this PIB.exe file may seem a bit helpful to some users, they must aware that many cyber crime master minds also use to disguise their malware to appear as PIB.exe. In such instances, the file will keep running even when the original legit app is not installed on computer. In such instances, the files can also be seen eating more than enough system resources to cause frequent lags or crashes while using the system.

According to experts, the files in such instances can be a trojan, and most probably a coin miner. This kind of apps are developed to eat up more than 70 percent of computer resources to mine digital money for its authors, however the victims keep facing frequent stammering while accessing games or applications. In order to keep such hurdles away, it’s recommended to identify and remove PIB.exe from compromised computers as soon as possible.

Threat Summary

Name: PIB.exe
Type: Trojan, Coin miner
Description: PIB.exe is said to be a an executable file which can be a trojan or coin miner as well if shows some negative issues on compromised computers.
Distribution: Malicious links or ads, fake installer setups, freeware download channels, and many more
Removal: In order to learn effective guidelines to remove PIB.exe from compromised computers, we suggest you to check he 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 PIB.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 PIB.exe and all detected threats

To delete PIB.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 PIB.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)