How To Remove Winsrv.exe

Winsrv.exe is found to be a vicious trojan horse infection that use to abuse the system resoruces to extract digital currency such as Monero, Darkcoin, Bitcoin, and so on. Mostly, this kind of applications are downloaded and installed on computers without any prior notice to users, and also it secretly begins its malicious processes in background. Since most of the computer resources often go misused for mining purposes, the users may find it very hard to access their machine for their own sake. The time when they attempt to do so, it fails with BSOD or similar scary messages. Therefore, the term Winsrv.exe can be highly precarious and should be dealt soon.

Technically, Winsrv.exe is just a helpful peiece of application for cyber criminals as they are interesed to earn money. Such people never care of users whose systems are misused, however for a user’s point of view, Winsrv.exe as a trojan seems to be the worst trait. Most of the applications or games keep stammering due to lack of system resources. Even the high end usage of computer’s processor and GPU may result in damage to hardware, which may cost a user really a lot. Even the overall electricity bill may increase as well.

In most of the instances, this kind of malware are carried over computers without user’s consent. And all this occurs probably while dealing with some unsafe online web soruces, deceptive advertisements, and more other tricks employed by criminals. A user is tricked to download and insatll disguised applications on their machine, which discloses no information about additiona identities. Even a user may miss such traits by getting through normal installation mode. While checking through Advanced or Custom installation mode, the users might find some options to block unwanted apps. However, if your machine is infected in current scenario, you can remove Winsrv.exe with the guidelines here.

Threat Summary

Name: Winsrv.exe
Type: Trojan, Cryptominer
Description: Winsrv.exe is found to be a highly precarious trojan or a cryptominer that misuses your computer’s resources for digital currency mining.
Distribution: Freeware or shareware applications, malicious links or ads, nasty or shady online sources, and many more.
Removal: Check through the guidelines section under this article to remove Winsrv.exe from compromised computers.

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 Winsrv.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 Winsrv.exe and all detected threats

To delete Winsrv.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 Winsrv.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)