Logiregistryservice.exe is a benevolent process, related to the Logitech Gaming Software. This is a legit program spread by a well-known computer peripherals manufacturer, that improves devices’ behavior in games. However, malware may use this name to hide itself in the Task Manager.
Despite being harmless and producing minimum load to the hardware, Logiregistryservice.exe name can be used by malicious programs. If so, you will see it overloading your CPU and having a wrond location on a disk. In this article, I will show how to understand that you are dealing with a virus. In particular, our team noticed coin miner trojans using this process name.
What is Logiregistryservice.exe process?
Logiregistryservice.exe is legitimate, but its name may be used by coin miner trojans.
As I have mentioned earlier, Logiregistryservice.exe may be a coin miner virus. The most obvious sign of any coin miner is an immense load on your CPU – over 80%. Malware does not care whether you need to use your PC – it takes all you have to mine cryptocurrencies. Sometimes, this process may also load GPU – though such cases are not very often. Such behavior is not normal for a legit process, as it is usually active for seconds after you plug in a new device.
Logiregistryservice.exe – Extremely high CPU/GPU usage
Aside from processor overloading, a definite sign of malicious origins of this process is its location on the disk. Legitimate instance of the Logiregistryservice.exe is C:\Program Files\Logitech Gaming Software\Drivers\APOService\. You can check the location of your instance of the process by clicking it with right mouse button, and then picking “Open file location” in the context menu. Any other location rather than one I’ve just mentioned mean that you are dealing with a malicious copy.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Logiregistryservice.exe miner?
Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system
First, Logiregistryservice.exe virus makes your computer overloaded. It is not able to run your applications now, because all processor power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your wants, all it pays attention to is generating profits on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until web browser is open, you will likely struggle with exceptionally sluggish performance. Pages can open up for years, any type of logins will likely take about a minute – just a horror story for a person that does a job online.
Logiregistryservice.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Logiregistryservice.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Armourysocketserver.exe, Spovelt.exe, Armouryliveupdate.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Logiregistryservice.exe removal. |
“Visible” harm is not a single bad thing coin miners perform to your system. Logiregistryservice.exe coin miner additionally deals damage to your operating system. To execute all malevolent operations effectively, it wrecks the protection mechanisms 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 lot of new entries – they are brought in by this trojan miner to connect your system to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes shall be thrown back to the original in the process of computer recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides making your PC slow, performing at peak level for long times may cause damage to your machine and increase electricity bills. Hardware components are created to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.
Small and covered CPU cooling system is not very easy to crack. Meanwhile, graphic cards have big and easy-to-access fans, which can be easily cracked if affected while running, for example, by the user much before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Logiregistryservice.exe miner can easily lead to graphic processing unit failure1. GPUs are also tend to have very fast wearing when utilized for cryptocurrency mining. It is likely an undesirable situation when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% just after several weeks of being used in such a way.
How did I get Logiregistryservice.exe coin miner virus?
Coin miners are spread through different ways, but their main sources are malicious banners and programs from dubious sources
Coin miners are one of the most prevalent malevolent programs through “severe” viruses. Adware sometimes serves as a carrier for Logiregistryservice.exe malware injection: it demonstrates you the banners, which have a link to malware downloading. Sure, this abstract “malware” can belong to any kind – yet another adware, spyware, rogue or backdoor. But the statistics say that around 30% of all malware spread with the malicious banners are coin miners – and Logiregistryservice.exe is just with them.
The example of malicious banners you can see in the Internet
An additional way you could get this item on your computer is by downloading it from the suspicious web page as a part of a program. Users who spread hacked variants of favored programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to earn money. For this reason, there is a very big lure to add in malware to the final package of the hacked app and acquire a coin for each setup. Before blaming these individuals for hacking and also malware spreading, ask yourself – is it okay 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 greater sum for antivirus program and new parts for your desktop.
How to remove the Logiregistryservice.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 operating system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the PC without dealing with high processor usage of the coin miner.
References
- About unwanted effects for GPUs in the process of cryptomining.
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