Remove Bitcoin Mining Machine miner Trojan

Tips To Delete Bitcoin Mining Machine miner

Bitcoin Mining Machine miner is a type of hazardous PC threat that is spread by cyber hackers to mine BitCoins and other crypto-currencies. The name of the malware suggests that it only targets Bitcoin cryptocurrency, however, it has been found that it tries to mine other digital currencies as well such as Ethereum, Monero etc. Crytocurrency miners have been very successful in the last few years. It draws immense attention and hence, convinces a number of people to utilizes this technique to earn revenues easily. In this method, the mathematical problems are solved using the computers.

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For easy earning via Bitcoin Mining Machine miner or other similar tools, your hardware must be enormously powerful that costs thousands of dollars. And hence, hackers have to invest for the entire process. To prevent this, cyber crooks attack regular users’ PC systems and employ them to mine crypto-currencies collectively. For this, they insert malicious tools onto the device that utilize computer processes (CPUS) and graphics cards (GPUs) to mine the digital currency. This leads to various problems.

Bitcoin Mining Machine miner eats up to 100% of system resources, and makes the PC unstable and almost unusable. Due to this, computer hardly responds and can freeze/reboot, resulting in permanent data loss. Moreover, extremely loaded systems generate too much heat, thus hardware might overheat in some situations (bad cooling systems, high room temperatures etc.) And hence, presence of a crypto-miner in your work-station can cause major financial loss. Most of trojan viruses hide their existence. Presence of such types of infections can be determined by rising in temperature of the device, system begins lagging and so on.

Bitcoin Mining Machine miner is also capable of disabling the working of all the running security services and Firewalls and opening backdoors for more nasty parasites. It may easily bring other online infections such as adware, worms, rootkits, spyware, ransomware etc. in your computer and turn the machine into a malware-hub. A crypto-virus tends to encrypt files stored inside a system and forces victims to pay the attackers a hefty sum of ransom for the decryption. If such types of destructive file-locking viruses could manage to get into your PCs, nothing can be worse than that. So, an instant Bitcoin Mining Machine miner removal is strongly required.

Threat Specification

Name– Bitcoin Mining Machine miner

Category– Trojan, crypto-miner, malware

Description-Consumes systems’ resources to mine digital currencies, Steals users’ personal and sensitive data for generating revenues and for other deceptive purposes, drops more parasites in the machine and turn the system into a malware-hub.

Symptoms– Slowness of system’s performance, error messages, loss of personal information, infiltration of a virus, system compromise, security alerts, unwanted redirects to questioning sites and so on.

Distribution– Spam email campaigns, malicious file downloads, P2P file sharing, and many more.

Removal– Manual and automatic guidelines as provided under this article

How Does This Trojan Intrude Your PC?

This kind of computer viruses are generally spread via the malspam campaign. In this scheme, users are sent phishing emails by the hackers that include malicious attachments (mainly MS Office documents). These attached document is disguised as legitimate that could be bills, invoices etc. However, as soon as it is opened, it silently downloads and installs the virus. Sometimes are crypto-miners are spread via fake software updaters, free file hosting sites, unofficial download sources (freeware download websites, peer-to-peer [P2P] networks, etc.), and the “bundling” method.

So, to avoid such situations, it is important to be very cautious while surfing the web. Never open emails that you receive from senders you don’t know. Choose only trustworthy sources to download products or software and stay away from unreliable channels, third-party downloaders, peer-to-peer networks as much as you can. During the installation of a freeware, always select the Advanced or Custom options where you can opt-out the unwanted components. But at the moment, you must remove Bitcoin Mining Machine miner from the device 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine miner:

Remove the related items of Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 (Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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 Bitcoin Mining Machine 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.

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