Dstudio-gui.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Dstudio-gui.exe executable file is related to a malicious program that can properly be identified as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, basically – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer roughly unusable because of high CPU utilization.

What is Dstudio-gui.exe process?

Dstudio-gui.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus

Dstudio-gui.exe – Very high CPU and GPU usage

Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners also utilize GPU power for their operations. In that situation, you will likely struggle even to see the mouse cursor moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as critical as CPU for system work, so Dstudio-gui.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It sometimes can cause sad 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 Dstudio-gui.exe miner?

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

Initially, Dstudio-gui.exe virus makes your computer overloaded. It is unable to run your applications anymore, as all CPU power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your demands, all it pays attention to is generating profits on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely suffer from extremely sluggish performance. Pages will open for years, any sort of logins will likely take about a minute – just a horror story for a person who works online.

Dstudio-gui.exe Technical Summary.

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

“Visible” damage is not a single bad activity coin miners do to your personal computer. Dstudio-gui.exe coin miner additionally deals damage to your OS. To execute all malevolent functions successfully, it ruins the security features 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 lot of new entries – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your system to a malicious cryptomining network. All these adjustments are about to be reverted to the original in the process of computer recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides slowing down your PC, performing at peak level for long times can cause damage to your device as well as increase power expenses. Hardware components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only in case when they are in a good shape.

Little and covered processor cooling system is quite hard to broke. Meanwhile, GPUs have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if touched while spinning, for instance, by the user much before the coin-miner injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Dstudio-gui.exe miner can easily lead to graphic processing unit failure³. Video cards are also tend to have very fast wearing when utilized for cryptocurrency mining. It is surely an undesirable situation when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% only after several weeks of being used in such a way.

How did I get Dstudio-gui.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 web page as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked versions of popular programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to get paid. Therefore, there is a very big lure to add malware to the final package of the hacked app and acquire a coin for every setup. Before blaming these guys for hacking and malware distribution, ask yourself – is it okay to avoid paying for the program in this manner? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater sum for antivirus software and new parts for your PC.

How to remove the Dstudio-gui.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 system is in Safe Mode, all third-party software, along with the majority of non-critical system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the PC without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.