Powershell_ise.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Powershell_ise.exe process belongs to a malevolent application that can accurately be identified as a coin miner virus. That malware type utilizes your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer pretty much unfunctional due to high CPU usage.

What is Powershell_ise.exe process?

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

Powershell_ise.exe – Really high CPU as well as GPU usage

Besides CPU consumption, some of the coin miners also use GPU power for their tasks. In that case, you will probably struggle even to see the mouse cursor moving – GPU is usually utilized on 100%. It is not as crucial as CPU for system work, so Powershell_ise.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and use it all. It often can result in sad 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 Powershell_ise.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, Powershell_ise.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, as all processor power is consumed by a virus. That malware does not care for your necessities, all it pays attention to is making money on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely suffer from extremely slow efficiency. Pages can open for years, any type of logins will likely take about a minute – just a horror story for a person that does a job online.

Powershell_ise.exe Technical Summary.

File Name	Powershell_ise.exe
Type	Trojan Coin Miner
Detection Name	Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner
Distribution Method	Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc.
Similar behavior	Securityhealthhost.exe, Sechealthui.exe, Dd_64.exe
Removal	Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Powershell_ise.exe removal.

“Visible” damage is not a single bad thing coin miners perform to your system. Powershell_ise.exe coin miner also deals damage to your OS. To perform all malevolent operations successfully, it wrecks the protection mechanisms of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware stops it to avoid recognition. If you open the HOSTS file, you will likely see a ton of new notes – they are brought in by this trojan miner to connect your PC 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 making your computer slow, running at peak power for a long period of time can cause damage to your machine as well as raise electricity costs. Hardware elements are created to easily deal with high load, but they are good with it only when they are in a good shape.

Small and well-protected CPU cooling system is hard to crack. Meanwhile, GPUs have large and easy-to-access fans, which can be easily broke if affected while working, for instance, by the user much earlier before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the extremely high load caused by Powershell_ise.exe malware can easily lead to graphic card failure³. Video cards are also tend to have increased wearing when used for crypto mining. It is surely an unwanted case when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Powershell_ise.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 item on your PC is by downloading it from the dubious site as a part of a program. Users who spread hacked variants of popular programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to earn money. Thus, there is a huge lure to add malware to the final package of the hacked application and receive a coin for every installation. Before criticizing these people for hacking and also malware distribution, ask yourself – is it alright to avoid buying the program in this manner? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much bigger sum for antivirus software as well as new parts for your computer.

How to remove the Powershell_ise.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, along with the majority of non-crucial Windows components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the computer without dealing with high processor usage of the coin miner.