Rgmol.exe process is related to a harmful program that can accurately be identified as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type uses your hardware to mine cryptocurrencies, primarily – Monero or DarkCoin1. It makes your personal computer almost unusable due to high CPU use.
What is Rgmol.exe process?
Rgmol.exe is a malicious process created by coin miner virus
Rgmol.exe – Extremely high CPU/GPU use
Besides CPU consumption, some of the coin miners additionally use GPU power for their tasks. In that situation, you will likely struggle even to see the mouse cursor moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as important as CPU for system work, so Rgmol.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It sometimes may cause unhappy consequences.
Shortly about cryptocurrency mining
List of the typical coin miner symptoms
How dangerous is the Rgmol.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, Rgmol.exe virus makes your system overloaded. It is not able to run your applications anymore, because all processor power is used 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 web browser is open, you will likely suffer from incredibly slow performance. Pages will open for years, any type of logins will take about a minute – just a headache for a person that works online.
Rgmol.exe Technical Summary.
| File Name | Rgmol.exe |
| Type | Trojan Coin Miner |
| Detection Name | Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner |
| Distribution Method | Software bundling, Intrusive advertisement, redirects to shady sites etc. |
| Similar behavior | Ground.exe, Adasdasdae.exe, Energy.exe |
| Removal | Download and install GridinSoft Anti-Malware for automatic Rgmol.exe removal. |
“Visible” damage is not a solitary negative activity coin miners do to your computer. Rgmol.exe coin miner also deals damage to your operating system. To execute all malevolent functions effectively, it ruins the security features of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to avoid recognition. If you check the HOSTS file, you will likely see a lot of new notes – they are added by this trojan miner to connect your system to a malicious mining network. All these adjustments are about to be thrown back to the initial state in the process of computer recovery.
Hardware effects of coin miner activity
Besides decreasing your computer’s performance, running at peak power for a long period of time can cause damage to your device and increase electricity expenses. Hardware elements are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.
Compact and covered CPU cooling system is quite hard to crack. Meanwhile, GPUs have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if touched while working, for example, by the user much before the virus injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the really high load caused by Rgmol.exe virus can easily lead to graphic card failure3. Video cards are also tend to have very fast wearing when used for crypto mining. It is surely a bad case when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% just after 1-2 weeks of being used in such a way.
How did I get Rgmol.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 PC is by downloading it from the untrustworthy site as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked variants of well-known programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to earn money. Therefore, there is a huge temptation to add malware to the final package of the hacked application and get a coin for every installation. Before blaming these individuals for hacking and also malware distribution, ask yourself – is it okay to avoid buying the program in this manner? It is more affordable to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater sum for antivirus program and new parts for your desktop.
How to remove the Rgmol.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-critical operating 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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