Bitcoin miner virus

[Guest]

I have a bitcoin miner virus on my PC, i noticed it when i was playing Battlefield 3 and my FPS went from ~40 to ~25.

And my virus scanner doesn't see the virus so i have to remove it manually.

It's "a variant of MSIL/CoinMiner.FO"

[tom564]

I have a bitcoin miner virus on my PC, i noticed it when i was playing Battlefield 3 and my FPS went from ~40 to ~25.

And my virus scanner doesn't see the virus so i have to remove it manually.

It's "a variant of MSIL/CoinMiner.FO"

Try malware bytes, it should recognize it as PUP and allow you to remove it.

[thedigitalmilk]

Great...?

[EChondo]

First things first, try and scan it with malwarebytes, avast, and MSE, if that doesn't work then...

 

Boot PC into Safe Mode, remove all network connectors(physical), scan with programs such as Avast, Malwarebytes, etc. from a USB stick install or install them previous from internet removal.

 

If the anti-virus scanners do not pick it up, then manually search for it via the registry and remove all traces of it.

 

Best of luck.

[Guest]

Try malware bytes, it should recognize it as PUP and allow you to remove it.

 

I scanned the program i downloaded with VirusTotal and only NOD32 sees the virus...

[Mooshi]

I don't know why nubs even try to mine bitcoin by infecting someone. If your PC was mining Bitcoin, you'd damn well would know it. Not to mention the absurd amount of hashes required to even mine the bloody things.

[Guest]

Seems like the virus is gone after removing 1 file and 1 thing in the registery.

[tom564]

I scanned the program i downloaded with VirusTotal and only NOD32 sees the virus...

Out of interest what was the program you tried to download?  

[DoubleY]

I don't know why nubs even try to mine bitcoin by infecting someone. If your PC was mining Bitcoin, you'd damn well would know it. Not to mention the absurd amount of hashes required to even mine the bloody things.

I agree with this. Why not make computers that you infect mine something like Litecoins or Feathercoins?

[Advent]

Download and run Combofix from BleepingComputer and run it. Should find any other traces and remove them. It is one of the most comprehensive scanners around.

Also you should keep Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro (32 or 64 bit), and ESET Online Scanner handy in the future as all of them are good tools. Avast is meh. I don't know why people recommend using it.


Also Vipre Rescue works well but can take a long time to finish a scan.

These are all tools that I use on a daily basis while doing broke/fix.

[Guest]

Download and run Combofix from BleepingComputer and run it. Should find any other traces and remove them. It is one of the most comprehensive scanners around.

Also you should keep Malwarebytes, Hitman Pro (32 or 64 bit), and ESET Online Scanner handy in the future as all of them are good tools. Avast is meh. I don't know why people recommend using it.

Also Vipre Rescue works well but can take a long time to finish a scan.

These are all tools that I use on a daily basis while doing broke/fix.

 

Did you read my comment? It's fixed now.

[Advent]

Did you read my comment? It's fixed now.

With any infection it is always good to run supplementary scans to ensure that there is no trace elements left. Just because you aren't having issues now doesn't mean there still aren't files that are potentially malicious and unwanted on your machine.

SOURCE: I've been doing this for a decade.