What is mining malware?

Trojan. BitCoinMiner identifies a program that either silently installs, or functions as, a specialized mining program (miner) and uses the computer’s physical resources (memory, processing power, etc) to generate units of a virtual or digital cryptocurrency.

How to remove Trojan.

What kind of malware is BitCoinMiner? BitCoinMiner is a generic name of cryptocurrency-mining viruses . On first glance, the name suggests that these viruses mine only Bitcoin cryptocurrency, however, cyber criminals also attempt to mine other cryptocurrencies, such as Monero, Ethereum, etc.

To check your computer for hidden mining, you can run Windows Task Manager (by pressing Ctrl+Alt+Del and activating Task Manager) or another program that allows you to monitor the CPU, GPU, memory, disk space, network activity and what processes are running on the system.

Cryptocurrency mining malware is typically a stealthy malware that farms the resources on a system (computers, smartphones, and other electronic devices connected to the internet) to generate revenue for the cyber criminals controlling it.

The easiest way to check is to use Windows Task Manager, and see just how many resources each process is using . You will find either your CPU, GPU, or both, will be running at a much higher percentage than usual. You may also notice noise increase and performance decrease from general usage.