A short discussion on Bitcoin Miner
Bitcoin Miner is a system infection which silently enters into your PC while using the GPU or CPU for the mining of digital currency. Criminals want to use the system resources to generate profit as Bitcoin. As the value of Cryptocurrency rises, criminals gain the profit more and more. It does not means that cyber criminals only mine the bitcoin, they also mines the Electroneum, Monero, and others. Bitcoin Miner uses the graphic cards and CPU for long period of time at the high intensity. Due to this reason your machine will get very hot and use more electric power.
Common symptoms of Bitcoin Miner
Bitcoin Miner does not get displayed the Windows and silently run in the system that you will not know that your system is getting infected. The only way to detect its presence is to find out its symptoms and you can start to look in the Task manager for unknown process. The symptoms are:
- You can see a process which is running in the task manager is using 50% of CPU for a long time period.
- Windows will maximize or minimize very slowly, videos will shutdown automatically and games runs slowly.
- Programs will not launch quickly and become unresponsive.
- Task manager shows more than 50% of CPU utilization all time.
- System run very slowly.
If your machine is infected with Bitcoin Miner that uses the GPU or graphics card , you will not visualize any process in the task manager that utilizes a big amount of CPU because the process is done on the graphics card.
How does Bitcoin Miner enters in your computer
Bitcoin Miner installed on your computer by different methods. But the most common method is the invasion of other Trojan which brings this virus in your computer without your knowledge. The other method is the installation of adware bundles programs which also helpful to install this Bitcoin Miner on the system. There are also some other methods which helps this trojan virus to enters into your computer like peer to peer file transfer, opening of spam email files which is send by the unknown senders.
Harmful Effects of Bitcoin Miner
Bitcoin Miner is very annoying and creates different kinds of problem. Once it get installed in your system it gives the opportunities to hackers to make more money. They hack your important information and make money. So, it is very important that you should remove Bitcoin Miner quickly from your computer.
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Manual Bitcoin Miner Removal Guide
Step 1: How to Start your PC in Safe Mode with Networking to Get Rid of Bitcoin Miner
(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 Bitcoin Miner, is not letting your PC to Start in Safe Mode, then following Step is to followed
Step 2: Remove Bitcoin Miner 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 Bitcoin Miner infection. Once done, Click on Next button.
Select Yes to Restore your System and get rid of Bitcoin Miner infection.
However, if the above steps does not work to remove Bitcoin Miner, follow the below mentioned steps
Step:3 Unhide All Hidden Files and Folders to Delete Bitcoin Miner
How to View Bitcoin Miner Hidden Folders on Windows XP
- In order to show the hidden files and folders, you need to follow the given instructions:-
- Close all the Windows or minimize the opened application to go to desktop.
- Open “My Computer” by double-clicking on its icon.
- Click on Tools menu and select Folder options.
- Click on the View tab from the new Window.
- Check the Display contents of the system folders options.
- In the Hidden files and folders section, you need to put a check mark on Show hidden files and folders option.
- Click on Apply and then OK button. Now, close the Window.
- Now, you can see all the Bitcoin Miner related hidden files and folders on the system.
How to Access Bitcoin Miner Hidden folders on Windows Vista
- Minimize or close all opened tabs and go to Desktop.
- Go to the lower left of your screen, you will see Windows logo there, click on Start button.
- Go to Control Panel menu and click on it.
- After Control Panel got opened, there will two options, either “Classic View” or “Control Panel Home View”.
- Do the following when you are in “Classic View”.
- Double click on the icon and open Folder Options.
- Choose View tab.
- Again move to step 5.
- Do the following if you are “Control Panel Home View”.
- Hit button on Appearance and Personalization link.
- Chose Show Hidden Files or Folders.
- Under the Hidden File or Folder section, click on the button which is right next to the Show Hidden Files or Folders.
- Click on Apply button and then hit OK. Now, close the window.
- Now, to show you all hidden files or folders created by Bitcoin Miner, you have successfully considered Windows Vista.
How to Unhide Bitcoin Miner 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 Bitcoin Miner.
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 Bitcoin Miner related Files and Folders on Windows 8
- First of all, power on your Windows PC and click on start logo button that is found in left side of the system screen.
- Now, move to program lists and select control panel app.
- When Control panel is open completely, click on more settings option.
- After, you will see a Control panel Window and then you choose “Appearance and Personalization” tab.
- 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.
- Click on Apply and Ok button. This apply option helps you to detect and eradicate all types of Bitcoin Miner related suspicious files.
- Finally, navigate your mouse cursor on close option to exit this panel.
How to View Bitcoin Miner 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 Bitcoin Miner, 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.