Ealauncher.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Ealauncher.exe process belongs to a harmful application that can properly be recognized as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware form uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer pretty much unfunctional because of high CPU use.

What is Ealauncher.exe process?

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

Ealauncher.exe – Extremely high CPU as well as GPU use

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

Shortly about cryptocurrency mining

List of the typical coin miner symptoms

Your device overheats (system unit/laptop body is very hot)

You are not able to open your apps or they are opening for ages

Unknown process is running in the background and consumes your PC resources

Windows Defender does not respond

How dangerous is the Ealauncher.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, Ealauncher.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is not able to run your applications now, as all CPU power is used by a malware. 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 struggle with incredibly sluggish efficiency. Pages can open up for years, any kind of logins will take about a minute – just a nightmare for a person that does a job online.

Ealauncher.exe Technical Summary.

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

“Visible” damage is not a solitary bad thing coin miners do to your system. Ealauncher.exe coin miner likewise deals damage to your operating system. To execute all malevolent functions properly, it ruins the protection mechanisms of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to avoid detection. 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 computer to a malicious mining network. All these changes are about to be reverted to the initial state in the process of system recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides decreasing your PC’s performance, running at peak level for a long period of time may cause damage to your device and raise power bills. PC components are designed to easily get along 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 fans, which can be easily cracked if touched while working, for example, by the user much earlier before the coin-miner injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the really high load caused by Ealauncher.exe can easily lead to GPU failure³. GPUs are also prone to have fast wearing when utilized for crypto mining. It is likely an undesirable situation when the performance of your GPU decreases on 20-30% only after several weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Ealauncher.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 thing on your computer is by downloading it from the untrustworthy site as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked variants of popular programs (which do not need the license key) have small chances to get paid. Therefore, there is a very big temptation to add malware to the final package of the hacked app and acquire a coin for each setup. Prior to blaming these individuals for hacking and malware distribution, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid buying the program in such a way? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much greater sum for antivirus program and new parts for your PC.

How to remove the Ealauncher.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, along with the majority of non-crucial 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.