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Hidden miner refers to a virus program that uses your computer's resources to mine cryptocurrencies. This is done automatically without the user's knowledge and any warnings.
Most often, you can catch a hidden miner when downloading files from unverified sources. Usually it is some pirated content, which is very popular among users. You can also stumble upon such a virus when receiving various spam mailings. In any version you get what you want, and with it on your computer can be downloaded a hidden miner or utility for its automatic download from the web. What is the danger of a hidden miner?
The miner makes your PC work at the maximum level of performance, which means that even when performing simple office tasks, the computer can slow down a lot. Long-term work at the limit of its capabilities will sooner or later affect the "iron."
First of all, the graphics card, processor, RAM and even cooling system, which simply can not cope with daily stress tests, can
suffer.
The first sign of the miner's presence is braking on simple tasks and a non-silent cooler.
Miners can also access your personal data stored on your computer. Everything from simple photos to data of various accounts and electronic wallets can go into action here. And it's already very dangerous. How a miner manages
to hide the miner's work on your PC is followed by a separate service that allows you to hide and mask the threat.
It is such a satellite that controls auto-launch and the behavior of the virus, making it invisible to you.
For example, this service can suspend the miner when you start some heavy shooters. This allows you to free up your computer's resources and give them to the game so that the user doesn't feel the brakes and the frame rate subsidence. When the shooter closes, the virus will get back to work.
The same escort service is able to track the launch of system activity monitoring programs to quickly disable the miner by unloading it from the list of running processes. However, particularly dangerous viruses may try to disable scanning tools on your computer, eliminating detection.
How to detect a hidden miner
If you began to notice that the computer began to brake and warm up, in the first place it is necessary to run an antivirus test with fresh bases. In the case of simple miners, there should be no problems. The threat will be detected and eliminated. Viruses that hide their presence well will have to be tinkered with.
You can track the hidden miners by systematically monitoring the Task Manager, which can be opened on Windows with a combination of Ctrl and Alt, Del or Ctrl, And Shift, Esc. For 10 to 15 minutes,
you just need to observe the active processes with complete inactivity. Close all programs and don't even move your mouse. How do I remove a hidden miner from my computer?
The first and most logical weapon in the fight against such an attack is antivirus, as mentioned above. However, miners are often not recognized as malicious threats. The maximum they equate to potentially dangerous, especially if the computer got together with a pirate game or hacked program.
If you do not have a powerful antivirus, you can resort to the help of small treating utilities. An example is Dr.Web CureIt!, which is often used to find hidden miners. It is distributed for free.
Manually, without any third-party tools removing the virus is also possible, but you should be 100% sure that it is the miner that has discovered it. In this case, you'll need to go to the registry by typing regedit in the Windows search, and in it a combination of Keys Ct and F to run an internal search (or through "Right" → "Find").
In the open line, enter the process name from the dispatcher behind which you think the miner is hiding. All matches you find need to be removed through the contextual menu. You can then restart your computer and evaluate the load changes on the iron.
Most often, you can catch a hidden miner when downloading files from unverified sources. Usually it is some pirated content, which is very popular among users. You can also stumble upon such a virus when receiving various spam mailings. In any version you get what you want, and with it on your computer can be downloaded a hidden miner or utility for its automatic download from the web. What is the danger of a hidden miner?
The miner makes your PC work at the maximum level of performance, which means that even when performing simple office tasks, the computer can slow down a lot. Long-term work at the limit of its capabilities will sooner or later affect the "iron."
First of all, the graphics card, processor, RAM and even cooling system, which simply can not cope with daily stress tests, can
suffer.
The first sign of the miner's presence is braking on simple tasks and a non-silent cooler.
Miners can also access your personal data stored on your computer. Everything from simple photos to data of various accounts and electronic wallets can go into action here. And it's already very dangerous. How a miner manages
to hide the miner's work on your PC is followed by a separate service that allows you to hide and mask the threat.
It is such a satellite that controls auto-launch and the behavior of the virus, making it invisible to you.
For example, this service can suspend the miner when you start some heavy shooters. This allows you to free up your computer's resources and give them to the game so that the user doesn't feel the brakes and the frame rate subsidence. When the shooter closes, the virus will get back to work.
The same escort service is able to track the launch of system activity monitoring programs to quickly disable the miner by unloading it from the list of running processes. However, particularly dangerous viruses may try to disable scanning tools on your computer, eliminating detection.
How to detect a hidden miner
If you began to notice that the computer began to brake and warm up, in the first place it is necessary to run an antivirus test with fresh bases. In the case of simple miners, there should be no problems. The threat will be detected and eliminated. Viruses that hide their presence well will have to be tinkered with.
You can track the hidden miners by systematically monitoring the Task Manager, which can be opened on Windows with a combination of Ctrl and Alt, Del or Ctrl, And Shift, Esc. For 10 to 15 minutes,
you just need to observe the active processes with complete inactivity. Close all programs and don't even move your mouse. How do I remove a hidden miner from my computer?
The first and most logical weapon in the fight against such an attack is antivirus, as mentioned above. However, miners are often not recognized as malicious threats. The maximum they equate to potentially dangerous, especially if the computer got together with a pirate game or hacked program.
If you do not have a powerful antivirus, you can resort to the help of small treating utilities. An example is Dr.Web CureIt!, which is often used to find hidden miners. It is distributed for free.
Manually, without any third-party tools removing the virus is also possible, but you should be 100% sure that it is the miner that has discovered it. In this case, you'll need to go to the registry by typing regedit in the Windows search, and in it a combination of Keys Ct and F to run an internal search (or through "Right" → "Find").
In the open line, enter the process name from the dispatcher behind which you think the miner is hiding. All matches you find need to be removed through the contextual menu. You can then restart your computer and evaluate the load changes on the iron.