Lolminer.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Lolminer.exe executable file belongs to a harmful application that can correctly be defined as a coin miner trojan. That malware type utilizes your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer roughly nonfunctional because of high CPU utilization.

What is Lolminer.exe process?

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

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

Besides CPU utilization, some of the coin miners additionally use GPU power for their tasks. In that case, you will probably struggle also to see the mouse cursor moving – GPU is usually utilized on 100%. It is not as critical as processor for system work, so Lolminer.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It often may lead to bad 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 Lolminer.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, Lolminer.exe malware makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications anymore, because all CPU power is used by a virus. That malware does not care for your needs, all it focuses on is making money on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely experience extremely slow efficiency. Pages will open up for years, any type of logins will take about a minute – just a horror story for a person that works online.

Lolminer.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Lolminer.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Mmm1.exe, Etece.exe, Etehe.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Lolminer.exe removal.

“Visible” damage is not a single negative thing coin miners perform to your personal computer. Lolminer.exe coin miner likewise deals damage to your OS. To carry out all malevolent operations effectively, it wrecks the security components 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 lot of new notes – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your PC to a malicious mining network. All these adjustments are about to be thrown back to the initial state in the process of PC recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides decreasing your system’s performance, performing at peak power for a long period of time may trigger damage to your machine as well as raise electricity costs. PC components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they are good with it only in case when they are in a good shape.

Little and well-protected processor fan is not very easy to broke. Meanwhile, graphic cards have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if affected while spinning, for instance, by the user much earlier before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Lolminer.exe malware can easily lead to GPU failure³. Graphic cards are also prone to have fast wearing when utilized for crypto mining. It is surely a bad situation when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% only after several weeks of being used in such a way.

How did I get Lolminer.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 PC is by downloading it from the unreliable website as a part of a program. Users who spread hacked variants of favored programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to earn money. For this reason, there is a huge temptation to add malware to the final package of the hacked application and receive a coin for each setup. Before criticizing these guys for hacking and also malware spreading, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid purchasing the program in such a way? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much greater figure for antivirus program as well as new parts for your computer.

How to remove the Lolminer.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 PC is in Safe Mode, all third-party applications, just like the majority of non-crucial Windows components, are not started with the system start. That allows you to clean the computer without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.