Three Ways to Remove Bitcoinminer Virus from Your Computer

Posted: Sep 15, 2011 |Comments: 0 | Views: 277 |

Found your computer is running slowly, examined your computer and then found Bitcoinminer is already in the list of Windows Task Manager? If Bitcoinminer is running in your computer, it means that your computer has been infected with Bitcoinminer, a dangerous program that could be a big trouble for your computer. Why you don't realize how Bitcoinminer sneak into your computer at all? That's because Bitcoinminer, usually bundled with some legitimate programs, is disguised as a helpful and trustworthy program that make you believe that it does no harm but good for your computer. The developer of Bitcoinminer designed effective algorithms to steal private information like credit card, account passwords, account number etc. that you inputted in your computer before. What's more, it would expose your computer in more dangerous position by change the security settings quietly, that for achieving such kind of access, Bitcoinminer would cause serious system errors or even system crash. By knowing how dangerous your computer running under Bitcoinminer, I bet what you want to do now, is to know how to remove Bitcoinminer ASAP. But since Bitcoinminer is so stubborn that it is hard to remove it completely, thus we recommend you to try different methods and see which one works.

Bitcoinminer removal instruction

Method 1.

1. Press Alt+Ctrl+Delsimultaneous to call out Windows Task Manager, find Bitcoinminer.exe in the list and terminate it.

2. Click "Start" – "Run", enter "regedit" to call out Windows Registry Editor, delete all Bitcoinminer name associated registry keystone and values there.

3. Run a full scan to detect if there is any Bitcoinminer remains in your computer system, remove all of it.

Note: This method is recommended to average users.

Method 2.

1. Press Alt+Ctrl+Delsimultaneous to call out Windows Task Manager, find Bitcoinminer.exe in the list and terminate it.

2. Call out Windows Command Prompt, type in "dir/<name_folder>" to check the whole files on the folder, and then type in "del<file_name> to delete associated file in that folder.

3. Type in "rmdir/S <folder_name>" to have the entire folder to be removed permanently.

The two method that mentioned above needs all associated files to be detected and deleted manually, that either a small piece of Bitcoinminer left or a tiny error in deleting would bring system error and Bitcoinminer regeneration, and a vulnerability on the registry will make your computer get further infection with other trojans. So what should you do while you knowing that the manual removal of Bitcoinminer is not 100% clean guaranteed? Therefore, we recommend you to run Spyware Cease, precede your removal based on the scan result or use it to remove Bitcoinminer completely.

Automatically remove Bitcoinminer

1. Free download Spyware Cease, install and launch it on your computer.

2. Run a full scan by using Spyware Cease. Left a few minutes for it to complete the scan for Bitcoinminer and other spyware, malware and other trojans on your computer.

3. Remove Bitcoinminer as well as other computer threads by a click on "Remove".

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