Crypted.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Crypted.exe process belongs to a malicious application that can properly be recognized as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer almost unfunctional due to high CPU utilization.

What is Crypted.exe process?

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

Crypted.exe – Really high CPU as well as GPU use

Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners also make use of GPU power for their operations. In that instance, you will probably struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually utilized on 100%. It is not as important as processor for system work, so Crypted.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize all of it. It often may result in bad 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 Crypted.exe miner?

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

Initially, Crypted.exe virus makes your system overloaded. It is not able to run your applications anymore, as all CPU power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your necessities, all it focuses on is making money on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely experience incredibly slow efficiency. Pages will open up for years, any kind of logins will likely take about a minute – just a headache for a person that does a job online.

Crypted.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Crypted.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Wrap.exe, Vncutil.exe, Comsore3.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Crypted.exe removal.

“Visible” harm is not a single bad thing coin miners do to your system. Crypted.exe coin miner also deals damage to your operating system. To conduct all malevolent functions correctly, it wrecks the security components of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware stops it to avoid detection. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a number of new notes – they are brought in by this coin miner to connect your PC to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes shall be thrown back to the initial state in the process of system recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides decreasing your computer’s performance, performing at peak power for long times can cause damage to your machine as well as raise power expenses. PC components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.

Little and well-protected CPU cooling system is quite hard to crack. Meanwhile, graphic cards have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if affected while running, for instance, by the user much earlier before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Crypted.exe miner can easily lead to graphic processing unit failure³. Video cards are also tend to have fast wearing when utilized for crypto mining. It is surely an unwanted case when the performance of your graphic card decreases on 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Crypted.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 who spread hacked versions of well-known programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to make money. Thus, there is a very big temptation to include malware to the final package of the hacked app and receive a coin for every installation. Prior to blaming these people for hacking and malware spreading, ask yourself – is it okay to avoid paying for the program in this manner? It is more affordable to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much bigger figure for antivirus software as well as new parts for your desktop.

How to remove the Crypted.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 computer is in Safe Mode, all third-party programs, just like the majority of non-critical Windows components, are not started with the system start. That allows you to clean the system without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.