How To Remove Winhostcpu.exe

Trojan coin miners are specific malware that are created by cyber crime master minds to mine digital currencies from targeted users. Although, the list of such miners is very long, Winhostcpu.exe is one of the new member of the family which is also a Coin miner that use to mine digital money including Monero, Bitcoin, DarkCoin, and many more. In this tutorial, we will discuss detailed information about this virus that how it infects a computer, works and devastates your way to use your own machine. To avoid such traits to affect your personal computer and related aspects, we highly suggest you to read this article completely.

Since Winhostcpu.exe is called to be a new trojan coin miner application, it might use a large quantity of your system resources that mostly impacts the overall system performance drastically. As per the estimation found by security experts, this application uses around more than 70 % of Processor’s and GPU’s resources to run its internal processes. These processes since run in background, it can hardly be identified easily, but can be seen as active and high resource eating element through Task Manager.

In case you notice your system is running unexpectedly slow and Winhostcpu.exe is active in the Task Manager, then unfortunately your computer has a coin miner. Being more precise to its acts, you can expect most of the installed applications or games would keep stammering while being used. This can create troubles for you throughout the PC usage sessions as you would hardly be able to access your machine easily for your own requirements. Not only this, but also Winhostcpu.exe can steal your digital wallet details to allow its authors making illicit profits. The best method to avoid such situations is to remove Winhostcpu.exe completely from infected machine without any delay.

How do Winhostcpu.exe may get installed?

Usually, the vicious trojans like Winhostcpu.exe can be carried to targeted computers through a number of deceptive measures employed by cyber criminals. They use to embed their malicious code in form of disguised software installer, software updater, and spread them over web. In many instances, malspam campaigns may also include some attachment file in form of document or invoice which seems to be related to a genuine organization. Believing such elements helpful, if a user interact with those, they surely end up getting their system infected, which all turns their PC usage sessions to be the worst.

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 Winhostcpu.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 Winhostcpu.exe and all detected threats

To delete Winhostcpu.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 Winhostcpu.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)