Blitzminer.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Blitzminer.exe executable file belongs to a malevolent application that can properly be identified as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type utilizes your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your computer roughly unfunctional as a result of high CPU usage.

What is Blitzminer.exe process?

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

Blitzminer.exe – Extremely high CPU/GPU use

Besides CPU utilization, some of the coin miners also use GPU power for their operations. In that situation, you will probably struggle also to see the mouse cursor moving – GPU is usually utilized on 100%. It is not as crucial as processor for system work, so Blitzminer.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It sometimes may cause unhappy results.

Shortly about cryptocurrency mining

List of the typical coin miner symptoms

Microsoft Defender is stopped;

CPU and GPU is loaded at 80-90% exactly after the system start

Cooling fans are running at high speed and create a lot of noise

A single process in Task Manager consumes all CPU and GPU power

How dangerous is the Blitzminer.exe miner?

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

First off, Blitzminer.exe virus makes your computer overloaded. It is not able to run your applications anymore, as all CPU power is consumed by a malware. That malware does not care for your demands, all it pays attention to is generating income on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until web browser is open, you will likely experience extremely sluggish efficiency. Pages will open up for years, any kind of logins will take about a minute – just a horror story for a person who does a job online.

Blitzminer.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Blitzminer.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Lineinst.exe, Minerhash.exe, Zecminer64.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Blitzminer.exe removal.

“Visible” damage is not a single unpleasant activity coin miners do to your PC. Blitzminer.exe coin miner additionally deals damage to your OS. To conduct all malevolent operations successfully, it wrecks the security features of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to prevent detection. If you check the HOSTS file, you will likely see a lot of new notes – they are brought in by this coin miner to connect your system to a malicious mining network. All these changes are about to be thrown back to the initial state in the process of computer recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides slowing down your computer, running at peak power for a long period of time can trigger damage to your device as well as raise electricity costs. Hardware elements are designed to easily deal with high load, but they are good with it only when they are in a good shape.

Little and well-protected processor fan is hard to crack. Meanwhile, GPUs have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if touched while running, for instance, by the user much before the coin-miner injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Blitzminer.exe malware can easily lead to graphic processing unit failure³. Graphic cards are also prone to have increased wearing when used for crypto mining. It is surely an unwanted case when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Blitzminer.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

One more way you could get this thing on your computer is by downloading it from the dubious site as a part of a program. People that spread hacked versions of popular programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to get paid. Thus, there is a very big lure to add in malware to the final package of the hacked application and get a coin for each installation. Prior to blaming these people for hacking and malware distribution, ask yourself – is it alright to avoid paying for the program in this manner? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much bigger figure for antivirus program and new parts for your desktop.

How to remove the Blitzminer.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, just like the majority of non-crucial Windows components, are not launched with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the computer without dealing with high processor usage of the coin miner.