Eu.exe process is related to a malevolent application that can correctly be recognized as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type uses your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin1. It makes your system roughly nonfunctional because of high CPU usage.
What is Eu.exe process?
Eu.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus
Eu.exe – Really high CPU/GPU usage
Besides CPU consumption, some of the coin miners also utilize 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 vital as CPU for system work, so Eu.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and use it all. It sometimes may cause sad effects.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Eu.exe miner?
Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system
Initially, Eu.exe virus makes your computer overloaded. It is not able to run your applications now, since all CPU power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your needs, all it focuses on is generating income on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until web browser is open, you will likely struggle with extremely sluggish performance. Pages will open for years, any type of logins will likely take about a minute – just a nightmare for a person that does a job online.
Eu.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Eu.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Winservicenetworking.exe, Hamster.exe, Strength.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Eu.exe removal. |
“Visible” damage is not a solitary bad thing coin miners do to your system. Eu.exe coin miner also deals damage to your OS. To execute all malicious functions properly, it wrecks the security mechanisms of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to avoid recognition. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a number of new entries – they are added by this coin miner to connect your system to a malicious cryptomining network. All these adjustments are about to be gone back to the initial state in the process of system recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides decreasing your system’s performance, running at peak power for long times may trigger damage to your device and raise electricity expenses. Hardware elements 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.
Little and well-protected CPU fan is not very easy to broke. Meanwhile, GPUs have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if touched while running, for example, by the user much earlier before the virus injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Eu.exe miner can easily lead to GPU failure3. GPUs are also prone to have very fast wearing when used for crypto mining. It is surely an unwanted situation when the performance of your video card decreases on 20-30% only after several weeks of being exploited in such a way.
How did I get Eu.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 untrustworthy website as a part of a program. People that spread hacked variants of well-known programs (which do not need the license key) have small chances to earn money. Thus, there is a huge temptation to add in malware to the final package of the hacked application and acquire a coin for each setup. Before criticizing these individuals for hacking and malware spreading, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid paying for the program in such a way? It is more affordable to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much bigger figure for antivirus program and new parts for your desktop.
How to remove the Eu.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 applications, along with the majority of non-crucial system components, are not launched with the system start. That allows you to clean the PC 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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