Dipawaymode.exe process comes from a harmful program that can properly be recognized as a coin miner trojan. That malware form uses your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin1. It makes your system pretty much nonfunctional as a result of high CPU usage.
What is Dipawaymode.exe process?
Dipawaymode.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus
Dipawaymode.exe – Very high CPU/GPU usage
Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners also use GPU power for their tasks. In that case, you will probably struggle even to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as critical as CPU for system work, so Dipawaymode.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and use it all. It often can result in sad results.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Dipawaymode.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, Dipawaymode.exe malware makes your computer overloaded. It is unable to run your applications anymore, because all CPU power is consumed by a virus. That malware does not care for your needs, all it pays attention to is generating income on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely struggle with exceptionally sluggish performance. Pages can open for years, any kind of logins will take about a minute – just a headache for a person that does a job online.
Dipawaymode.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Dipawaymode.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Auepmaster.exe, Microsoftsecurityapp.exe, Intelunisonclient.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Dipawaymode.exe removal. |
“Visible” damage is not a single bad thing coin miners do to your personal computer. Dipawaymode.exe coin miner also deals damage to your operating system. To conduct all malevolent functions correctly, it wrecks the security features of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to prevent detection. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a load of new entries – they are added by this coin miner to connect your computer to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes are about to be reverted to the original in the process of PC recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides decreasing your PC’s performance, performing at peak power for a long period of time can cause damage to your machine as well as raise power expenses. PC elements are created to easily get along with high load, but they are good with it only when they are in a good shape.
Tiny and well-protected processor cooling system is quite hard to broke. Meanwhile, graphic cards have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if affected while running, for example, by the user much before the virus injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Dipawaymode.exe virus can easily lead to graphic card failure3. Video cards are also tend to have increased wearing when utilized for cryptocurrency mining. It is surely an unwanted situation when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% just after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.
How did I get Dipawaymode.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 web page as a part of a program. People that spread hacked variants of well-known programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to make money. Therefore, there is a huge lure to add in malware to the final package of the hacked app and receive a coin for every setup. Prior to blaming these people for hacking and malware spreading, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid purchasing the program in such a way? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much bigger sum for antivirus software as well as new parts for your PC.
How to remove the Dipawaymode.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-crucial Windows components, are not launched with the system start. That allows you 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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