Get Rid Of VBS/CoinMiner from Windows 8

 

VBS/CoinMiner – Remove It Quickly From My PC

Are you coping up with difficulties while working on your computer, no matter you are either working online or offline? Are there some threats which has arose in your PC due to malicious activities of VBS/CoinMiner. We will talk about the ways of removing VBS/CoinMiner from your PC later in this article but before that have a glance of threat we are going to deal with.

Summary Of The Threat

Concise Explanation About VBS/CoinMiner

VBS/CoinMiner was detected by cyber experts. It is the member of the Trojan family which has the reputation of being harmful for your privacy. Con developers have developed this malicious program with the main aim to steal personal information from the compromised PC whereas it also corrupts your program files which ultimately results in making some application completely inaccessible from your reach.

VBS/CoinMiner also have the tendency to insert new entries in your Windows registry and can also modify the current entries in the registry. It also manages to create a backdoor for the remote attackers so that they would make some different modifications on your PC by which illegal revenue can be generated. Your personal information related to your browsing activities are theft away by VBS/CoinMiner which are shared with some third party and that results in compromising your security.

How VBS/CoinMiner Manages To Invade Your PC?

VBS/CoinMiner manages to infiltrate your PC with the assistance of spam email attachments and attachments to an email. It tricks user by making them immense aggressive to know about the information which has been mentioned in the attachments. Without bothering about the evil consequences of downloading such attachments user download it due to which VBS/CoinMiner gets installed on their system. There are some other methods which can be used by this Trojan to infiltrate in your PC like bundling, downloading some executable files from suspected sites or by shareware.

Manual VBS/CoinMiner Removal Guide

Step 1: How to Start your PC in Safe Mode with Networking to Get Rid of VBS/CoinMiner

(For Win 7 | XP | Vista Users)

• first of all PC is to be rebooted in Safe Mode with Networking
• Select on Start Button and Click on Shutdown | Restart option and select OK
• when the PC restarts, keep tapping on F8 until you don’t get Advanced Boot Options.
• Safe Mode with Networking Option is to be selected from the list.

 

(For Win 8 | 8.1 | Win 10 Users)

• Click on Power Button near Windows Login Screen
• Keep Shift Button on the keyboard pressed and select Restart Option
• Now Select on Enable Safe Mode with Networking Option

In case VBS/CoinMiner, is not letting your PC to Start in Safe Mode, then following Step is to followed

Step 2: Remove VBS/CoinMiner Using System Restore Process

• PC need to be rebooted to Safe Mode with Command Prompt
• As soon as Command Prompt Window appear on the screen, select on cd restore and press on Enter option

Type rstrui.exe and Click on Enter again.

Now users need to Click on Next option and Choose restore point that was the last time Windows was working fine prior to VBS/CoinMiner infection. Once done, Click on Next button.

Select Yes to Restore your System and get rid of VBS/CoinMiner infection.

However, if the above steps does not work to remove VBS/CoinMiner, follow the below mentioned steps

Step:3  Unhide All Hidden Files and Folders to Delete VBS/CoinMiner

How to View VBS/CoinMiner Hidden Folders on Windows XP

1. In order to show the hidden files and folders, you need to follow the given instructions:-
2. Close all the Windows or minimize the opened application to go to desktop.
3. Open “My Computer” by double-clicking on its icon.
4. Click on Tools menu and select Folder options.
5. Click on the View tab from the new Window.
6. Check the Display contents of the system folders options.
7. In the Hidden files and folders section, you need to put a check mark on Show hidden files and folders option.
8. Click on Apply and then OK button. Now, close the Window.
9. Now, you can see all the VBS/CoinMiner related hidden files and folders on the system.

How to Access VBS/CoinMiner Hidden folders on Windows Vista

1. Minimize or close all opened tabs and go to Desktop.
2. Go to the lower left of your screen, you will see Windows logo there, click on Start button.
3. Go to Control Panel menu and click on it.
4. After Control Panel got opened, there will two options, either “Classic View” or “Control Panel Home View”.
5. Do the following when you are in “Classic View”.
6. Double click on the icon and open Folder Options.
7. Choose View tab.
8. Again move to step 5.
9. Do the following if you are “Control Panel Home View”.
10. Hit button on Appearance and Personalization link.
11. Chose Show Hidden Files or Folders.
12. Under the Hidden File or Folder section, click on the button which is right next to the Show Hidden Files or Folders.
13. Click on Apply button and then hit OK. Now, close the window.
14. Now, to show you all hidden files or folders created by VBS/CoinMiner, you have successfully considered Windows Vista.

How to Unhide VBS/CoinMiner Created Folders on Windows 7

1. Go to the desktop and tap on the small rectangle which is located in the lower-right part of the system screen.

2. Now, just open the “Start” menu by clicking on the Windows start button which is located in the lower-left side of the PC screen that carries the windows logo.

3. Then after, look for the “Control Panel” menu option in the right-most row and open it.

4. When the Control Panel menu opens, then look for the “Folder Options” link.

5. Tap over the “View tab”.

6. Under the “Advanced Settings” category, double click on the “Hidden Files or Folders” associated with VBS/CoinMiner.

7. Next, just select the check-box in order to Show hidden files, folders, or drives.

8. After this, click on “Apply” >> “OK” and then close the menu.

9. Now, the Windows 7 should be configured to show you all hidden files, folders or drives.

Steps to Unhide VBS/CoinMiner related Files and Folders on Windows 8

1. First of all, power on your Windows PC and click on start logo button that is found in left side of the system screen.
2. Now, move to program lists and select control panel app.
3. When Control panel is open completely, click on more settings option.
4. After, you will see a Control panel Window and then you choose “Appearance and Personalization” tab.
5. In Advance settings dialogue box, you need to tick mark on Show hidden files and folders and clear the check box for Hide protected system files.
6. Click on Apply and Ok button. This apply option helps you to detect and eradicate all types of VBS/CoinMiner related suspicious files.
7. Finally, navigate your mouse cursor on close option to exit this panel.

How to View VBS/CoinMiner associated folders on Windows 10

1. Open the folder if you wish to unhide files.

2. Search and Click on View in Menu bar

3. In Menu click on to view folder options.

4. Again click on View and Enable Radio Button associated with Show hidden files created by VBS/CoinMiner, folder and drive.

5. Press apply and OK.

Step 4: Press Start Key along with R- copy + paste the below stated command and Click on OK

notepad %windir%/system32/Drivers/etc/hosts

• This will open up a new file, in case if your system has been hacked, some IP’s will be shown at the bottom of the screen

Click on the Start Menu, Input “Control Panel” in the search box —> Select. Network and Internet —> Network and Sharing Center —> Next Change Adapter Settings. Right-click your Internet connection —> Select on Properties.

• In case if you find Suspicious IP in the local host –or if you are finding it difficult and have any problem then submit question to us and we will be happy to help you.