How To Remove syshost.exe

126696465syshost.exe is a vicious process that is associated with Windows operating system. Technically, this file belongs to a software ertyu developed by TendaCam. Means, if the application is installed on your machine, then you can expect the appearance of syshost.exe through windows task manager, and it’s all normal. When installed, the exe file is placed within C:\\windows\ directory, however its actual file size may vary from Windows versions to versions. But, in case if the exe file seems active within other directory and no associated app is installed on computer, then probably the system is infected but a trojan named as syshost.exe.

Many of malware authors use to disguise and spread their malicious code under name of syshost.exe and spread them over web to do malicious tasks on targeted computers. Mostly, such applications are called to be cryptominers and are mostly developed to mine digital currency from targeted computers by using maximum computer resoruces like CPU or GPU. Technically, such traits are capable of miniging various digital currency variants like Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin, and so on. This way, cryptominers can be terribly helpful for its authors, but can be drastic malware for user’s point of view.

Based on tests and experiments, syshost.exe like cryptominers can gain access over targeted computers by altering various internal settings and misuses CPU or GPU by more than its 70 percent of strength. As a result, the overall system performance is reduced. Most of the games or applications start to stutter or stammer with BSOD or other scary error messages. The overall system usage becomes really hard due to lack of system resources, which leads the victims to face off severe consequences later on. Therefore, the syshost.exe should be identified and cleaned from computers soon.

Threat Summary

Name: syshost.exe
Type: Cryptominer, trojan
Description: syshost.exe is found to be a vicious cryptominer or trojan horse infection that may cause computers to keep non responding by eating enough system resources.
Distribution: Malspam campaigns, freeware or shareware installer, malicious packages, and many more.
Removal: Check out the guidelines section under this article to learn quick syshost.exe removal measures.

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 syshost.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 syshost.exe and all detected threats

To delete syshost.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 syshost.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)