Antimalwareservice.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Antimalwareservice.exe executable file comes from a malicious application that can accurately be identified as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware form uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer almost unusable because of high CPU use.

What is Antimalwareservice.exe process?

Antimalwareservice.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus

Antimalwareservice.exe – Very high CPU/GPU usage

Besides CPU utilization, some of the coin miners additionally use GPU power for their operations. In that situation, you will struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is often used on 100%. It is not as critical as CPU for system work, so Antimalwareservice.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It often may result in bad results.

Shortly about cryptocurrency mining

List of the typical coin miner symptoms

Your device overheats (system unit/laptop body is very hot)

You are not able to open your apps or they are opening for ages

Unknown process is running in the background and consumes your PC resources

Windows Defender does not respond

How dangerous is the Antimalwareservice.exe miner?

Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system

First of all, Antimalwareservice.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications anymore, as all CPU power is consumed by a malware. That malware does not care for your wants, all it focuses on is making money on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until web browser is open, you will likely experience incredibly slow efficiency. Pages will open for years, any kind of logins will take about a minute – just a nightmare for a person that works online.

Antimalwareservice.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Antimalwareservice.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Mufusiso.exe, Vmmem.exe, Novpop.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Antimalwareservice.exe removal.

“Visible” damage is not a solitary negative activity coin miners perform to your personal computer. Antimalwareservice.exe coin miner likewise deals damage to your operating system. To conduct all malicious functions correctly, it ruins the protection mechanisms of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to prevent recognition. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a lot of new notes – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your computer to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes shall be reverted to the initial state in the process of computer recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides slowing down your PC, running at peak level for long times can trigger damage to your machine as well as increase power expenses. PC components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only in case when they are in a good shape.

Compact and covered CPU fan is quite hard to crack. Meanwhile, GPUs have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if affected while running, for example, by the user much earlier before the virus injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Antimalwareservice.exe malware can easily lead to GPU failure³. GPUs are also prone to have fast wearing when used for crypto mining. It is surely a bad case when the performance of your GPU decreases on 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being used in such a way.

How did I get Antimalwareservice.exe coin miner virus?

Coin miners are spread through different ways, but their main sources are malicious banners and programs from dubious sources

The example of malicious banners you can see in the Internet

Another way you could get this thing on your PC is by downloading it from the untrustworthy website as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked versions of well-known programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to make money. Hence, there is a huge lure to include malware to the final package of the hacked app and get a coin for each installation. Prior to blaming these guys for hacking and malware distribution, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid paying for the program in such a way? It is more affordable to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater sum for antivirus software and new parts for your desktop.

How to remove the Antimalwareservice.exe miner from my PC?

The best way to get rid of this coin miner virus is to use anti-malware software

Booting the PC into Safe Mode with Networking

Press the Start button, then choose Power, and click on Reboot while holding the Shift key on the keyboard.

Windows will reboot into recovery mode. In that mode, choose Troubleshoot→ Startup Settings→ Safe Mode with Networking. Press the corresponding button on your keyboard to choose that option.

When your PC is in Safe Mode, all third-party software, along with the majority of non-crucial operating system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the PC without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.