Kaspersky

Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner is a Trojan Horse that uses the infected computer’s resources to mine digital currency (Monero, Bitcoin, DarkCoin or Ethereum) without user permission. Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner Trojan will use more than 70% of your CPU’s power and graphics cards power.

CoinMiner is considered to be a virus , a type of malware that is designed to create havoc in the computer. A CoinMiner infection can be as harmless as showing annoying messages on your screen or as vicious as disabling the computer altogether.

Coinminer Propose Change Coinminer is an unwanted malicious software which uses the victim’s computational power (CPU and RAM mostly) to mine for coins (for example Monero or Zcash). The malware achieves persistence by adding one of the opensource miners on startup without the victim’s consensus.