Asuscertservice.exe process belongs to a harmful application that can accurately be defined as a coin miner virus. That malware type uses your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin1. It makes your computer almost unfunctional due to high CPU use.
What is Asuscertservice.exe process?
Asuscertservice.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus
Asuscertservice.exe – Really high CPU/GPU use
Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners also use GPU power for their tasks. In that situation, you will likely struggle even to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as important as CPU for system work, so Asuscertservice.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and use all of it. It often can result in sad consequences.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Asuscertservice.exe miner?
Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system
Initially, Asuscertservice.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, because all CPU power is used by a malware. That malware does not care for your demands, all it pays attention to is making money on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until web browser is open, you will likely experience incredibly slow performance. Pages can open for years, any type of logins will take about a minute – just a horror story for a person that does a job online.
Asuscertservice.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Asuscertservice.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Epicgameslauncher.exe, Wmic.exe, Microsoftedgeupdate.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Asuscertservice.exe removal. |
“Visible” damage is not a single negative activity coin miners do to your system. Asuscertservice.exe coin miner also deals damage to your OS. To perform all malevolent functions effectively, it ruins the security mechanisms of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware stops it to avoid recognition. If you check the HOSTS file, you will likely see a load of new notes – they are brought in by this trojan miner to connect your PC to a malicious mining network. All these adjustments shall be gone back to the original in the process of PC recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides decreasing your system’s performance, performing at peak power for long times can trigger damage to your machine and increase electricity bills. PC components are designed to easily get along with high load, but they are good with it only in case when they are in a good shape.
Compact and well-protected processor fan is hard to broke. Meanwhile, graphic cards have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if touched while spinning, for example, by the user much before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Asuscertservice.exe miner can easily lead to GPU failure3. GPUs are also prone to have very fast wearing when utilized for crypto mining. It is likely an unwanted case when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% only after several weeks of being exploited in such a way.
How did I get Asuscertservice.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 computer is by downloading it from the unreliable website as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked variants of favored programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to make money. Thus, there is a very big temptation to add in malware to the final package of the hacked application and acquire a coin for every setup. Prior to blaming these people for hacking and also malware spreading, ask yourself – is it okay to avoid buying the program in such a way? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater figure for antivirus program and new parts for your PC.
How to remove the Asuscertservice.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 programs, just like the majority of non-crucial system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the computer without dealing with high processor usage of the coin miner.
References
- Read about why Monero and DarkCoin are so popular amongst cybercriminals.
- About unwanted effects for GPUs in the process of cryptomining.
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