Dom.exe process belongs to a malicious application that can properly be recognized as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware form utilizes your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, basically – Monero or DarkCoin1. It makes your computer roughly nonfunctional due to high CPU usage.
What is Dom.exe process?
Dom.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus
Dom.exe – Extremely high CPU and GPU use
Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners additionally make use of GPU power for their operations. In that instance, you will likely struggle even to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as crucial as processor for system work, so Dom.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and use all of it. It sometimes may lead to sad effects.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Dom.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, Dom.exe malware makes your computer overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, because all CPU power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your needs, 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 efficiency. Pages will open up for years, any sort of logins will likely take about a minute – just a nightmare for a person who does a job online.
Dom.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Dom.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Setup5.exe, Bloom.exe, Atieclxx.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Dom.exe removal. |
“Visible” damage is not a solitary negative activity coin miners do to your system. Dom.exe coin miner also deals damage to your OS. To perform all malicious operations properly, it ruins the protection features of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to avoid recognition. If you check the HOSTS file, you will likely see a load of new entries – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your PC to a malicious mining network. All these changes shall be reverted to the original in the process of system recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides making your PC slow, performing at peak power for long times may cause damage to your device as well as raise electricity costs. 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 covered CPU cooling system is hard to broke. Meanwhile, graphic cards have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if affected while spinning, for instance, by the user much before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Dom.exe virus can easily lead to graphic card failure3. GPUs are also prone to have increased wearing when used for cryptocurrency mining. It is surely a bad situation when the performance of your graphic card plunges 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.
How did I get Dom.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
An additional way you could get this item on your PC is by downloading it from the dubious 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 earn money. Hence, there is a huge lure to include malware to the final package of the hacked application and receive a coin for each installation. Prior to blaming these guys for hacking and also malware spreading, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid purchasing the program in this manner? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater figure for antivirus software and new parts for your desktop.
How to remove the Dom.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 applications, just like the majority of non-crucial operating system 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.
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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