How To Remove Zenar Miner Trojan

Zenar Miner: Complete Uninstall Guide

Zenar Miner is a cryptocurrency mining application that belongs to the group of Trojan horses. It seeks to infect targeted computers without being noticed and also can be purchased for $100 on a hacker forum. Soon after the intrusion, it continuously runs the mining process which increases exploits the system’s CPU resources. The precarious Trojan is rewritten in C++ programming language. Although the idea of digital currency miners is not hazardous, most of them are categorized as Trojan, malware, or virus due to a high-risk of severe system’s freezes and crashes. Long-lasting malevolent performance of this software can result in hardware failure or render the computer useless.

Depth Analysis Of Zenar Miner:

Once installed, Zenar Miner virus makes vicious entries in Windows startup. Afterward, each system’s boot is followed by multiple processes running on Windows Task Manager. The process of mining digital currency requires vital resources such as processors (CPUs), graphics cards (GPUs), and other hardware. This nasty trojan utilizes that hardware to solve mathematical problems (cryptographic equations). Remember that, the more powerful hardware is, the faster it mines the cryptocurrency. Users are attempted to be deceived by cybercriminals into installing Zenar Miner or other similar apps so that they could use their system hardware to mine cryptocurrency rather than utilizing their hardware.

Most professional anti-virus suites detect such miners and immunize it before it intrudes the computer. Nonetheless, its creators update the Trojan, so that it could avoid anti-virus detection and removal. That’s why updating the anti-virus security programs is a vital part of the computer’s protection. Probably one of the main symptoms of the Zenar Miner attack is unusual system’s slowness. Programs stop responding, freeze casually or regularly; downloading any data will be very harder on the machine, and so on.

In this case, you should access Task Manager and check if any files are consuming CPU resources. In case CPU consumption surpasses 40%, it’s recommended scanning the computer with a professional anti-malware. Do not let offenders to connect your device to a mining botnet leaving you overboard. If there is a crypto-mining Trojan running inside your computer, you won’t earn the smallest bit of digital currency, but criminals will. To fix your system’s slowdowns and similar abnormal behavior, scan the device and perform Zenar Miner as soon as possible.

Ways To Spread Zenar Miner:

Quite often, these types of computer viruses are spread via deceptive emails that contain vicious attachments or download links of malicious files. These phishing mails are sent by criminals in thousands in large-scale operations that are disguised as ‘important’, ‘official’, ‘urgent’ etc. nonetheless, once the recipients open the malevolent file, it triggers the installation of the malware. The spiteful file could be in any of these formats: executable files (like .exe), Microsoft Office, PDF documents, ZIP, RAR or other archive files, JavaScript files.

So, to prevent this from happening, it is important to ignore suspicious emails that you receive from unknown addresses as you never know what they contain. Especially, first scan their attachments with a reputable anti-malware tool and only if it detects nothing suspicious, open it. In case your PC is already infected with this hazardous cryptominer, you must remove Zenar Miner from the machine without wasting any time.

Antimalware Details And User Guide

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Important Note: This malware asks you to enable the web browser notifications. So, before you go the manual removal process, execute these steps.

Google Chrome (PC)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the Menu button
• Select “Settings”. Scroll the mouse downward to choose “Advanced” option
• Go to “Privacy and Security” section by scrolling downward and then select “Content settings” and then “Notification” option
• Find each suspicious URLs and click on three dots on the right side and choose “Block” or “Remove” option

Google Chrome (Android)

• Go to right upper corner of the screen and click on three dots to open the menu button and then click on “Settings”
• Scroll down further to click on “site settings” and then press on “notifications” option
• In the newly opened window, choose each suspicious URLs one by one
• In the permission section, select “notification” and “Off” the toggle button

Mozilla Firefox

• On the right corner of the screen, you will notice three dots which is the “Menu” button
• Select “Options” and choose “Privacy and Security” in the toolbar present in the left side of the screen
• Slowly scroll down and go to “Permission” section then choose “Settings” option next to “Notifications”
• In the newly opened window, select all the suspicious URLs. Click on the drop-down menu and select “Block”

Internet Explorer

• In the Internet Explorer window, select the Gear button present on the right corner
• Choose “Internet Options”
• Select “Privacy” tab and then “Settings” under the “Pop-up Blocker” section
• Select all the suspicious URLs one by one and click on the “Remove” option

Microsoft Edge

• Open the Microsoft Edge and click on the three dots on the right corner of the screen to open the menu
• Scroll down and select “Settings”
• Scroll down further to choose “view advanced settings”
• In the “Website Permission” option, click on “Manage” option
• Click on switch under every suspicious URL

Safari (Mac):

• On the upper right side corner, click on “Safari” and then select “Preferences”
• Go to “website” tab and then choose “Notification” section on the left pane
• Search for the suspicious URLs and choose “Deny” option for each one of them

Manual Steps to Remove Zenar Miner:

Remove the related items of Zenar Miner using Control-Panel

Windows 7 Users

Click “Start” (the windows logo at the bottom left corner of the desktop screen), select “Control Panel”. Locate the “Programs” and then followed by clicking on “Uninstall Program”

Windows XP Users

Click “Start” and then choose “Settings” and then click “Control Panel”. Search and click on “Add or Remove Program’ option

Windows 10 and 8 Users:

Go to the lower left corner of the screen and right-click. In the “Quick Access” menu, choose “Control Panel”. In the newly opened window, choose “Program and Features”

Mac OSX Users

Click on “Finder” option. Choose “Application” in the newly opened screen. In the “Application” folder, drag the app to “Trash”. Right click on the Trash icon and then click on “Empty Trash”.

In the uninstall programs window, search for the PUAs. Choose all the unwanted and suspicious entries and click on “Uninstall” or “Remove”.

After you uninstall all the potentially unwanted program causing Zenar Miner issues, scan your computer with an anti-malware tool for any remaining PUPs and PUAs or possible malware infection. To scan the PC, use the recommended the anti-malware tool.

How to Remove Adware (Zenar Miner) from Internet Browsers

Delete malicious add-ons and extensions from IE

Click on the gear icon at the top right corner of Internet Explorer. Select “Manage Add-ons”. Search for any recently installed plug-ins or add-ons and click on “Remove”.

Additional Option

If you still face issues related to Zenar Miner removal, you can reset the Internet Explorer to its default setting.

Windows XP users: Press on “Start” and click “Run”. In the newly opened window, type “inetcpl.cpl” and click on the “Advanced” tab and then press on “Reset”.

Windows Vista and Windows 7 Users: Press the Windows logo, type inetcpl.cpl in the start search box and press enter. In the newly opened window, click on the “Advanced Tab” followed by “Reset” button.

For Windows 8 Users: Open IE and click on the “gear” icon. Choose “Internet Options”

Select the “Advanced” tab in the newly opened window

Press on “Reset” option

You have to press on the “Reset” button again to confirm that you really want to reset the IE

Remove Doubtful and Harmful Extension from Google Chrome

Go to menu of Google Chrome by pressing on three vertical dots and select on “More tools” and then “Extensions”. You can search for all the recently installed add-ons and remove all of them.

Optional Method

If the problems related to Zenar Miner still persists or you face any issue in removing, then it is advised that your reset the Google Chrome browse settings. Go to three dotted points at the top right corner and choose “Settings”. Scroll down bottom and click on “Advanced”.

At the bottom, notice the “Reset” option and click on it.

In the next opened window, confirm that you want to reset the Google Chrome settings by click on the “Reset” button.

Remove Zenar Miner plugins (including all other doubtful plug-ins) from Firefox Mozilla

Open the Firefox menu and select “Add-ons”. Click “Extensions”. Select all the recently installed browser plug-ins.

Optional Method

If you face problems in Zenar Miner removal then you have the option to rese the settings of Mozilla Firefox.

Open the browser (Mozilla Firefox) and click on the “menu” and then click on “Help”.

Choose “Troubleshooting Information”

In the newly opened pop-up window, click “Refresh Firefox” button

The next step is to confirm that really want to reset the Mozilla Firefox settings to its default by clicking on “Refresh Firefox” button.

Remove Malicious Extension from Safari

Open the Safari and go to its “Menu” and select “Preferences”.

Click on the “Extension” and select all the recently installed “Extensions” and then click on “Uninstall”.

Optional Method

Open the “Safari” and go menu. In the drop-down menu, choose “Clear History and Website Data”.

In the newly opened window, select “All History” and then press on “Clear History” option.

Delete Zenar Miner (malicious add-ons) from Microsoft Edge

Open Microsoft Edge and go to three horizontal dot icons at the top right corner of the browser. Select all the recently installed extensions and right click on the mouse to “uninstall”

Optional Method

Open the browser (Microsoft Edge) and select “Settings”

Next steps is to click on “Choose what to clear” button

Click on “show more” and then select everything and then press on “Clear” button.

Conclusion

In most cases, the PUPs and adware gets inside the marked PC through unsafe freeware downloads. It is advised that you should only choose developers website only while downloading any kind of free applications. Choose custom or advanced installation process so that you can trace the additional PUPs listed for installation along with the main program.