Teamviewer.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Teamviewer.exe executable file is related to a harmful program that can correctly be identified as a coin miner trojan. That malware type uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your system pretty much unfunctional because of high CPU utilization.

What is Teamviewer.exe process?

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

Teamviewer.exe – Extremely high CPU/GPU use

Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners additionally make use of GPU power for their tasks. In that case, you will probably struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as critical as CPU for system work, so Teamviewer.exe coin miner viruses do not waste time on trifles and utilize it all. It sometimes can cause unhappy results.

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 Teamviewer.exe miner?

Coin miners does not deal damage to your files. However, they make a lot of unpleasant things with the whole system

First, Teamviewer.exe virus makes your PC overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, since all processor power is used by a malware. That malware does not care for your necessities, 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 suffer from incredibly slow efficiency. Pages will open up for years, any sort of logins will take about a minute – just a nightmare for a person who works online.

Teamviewer.exe Technical Summary.

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

“Visible” damage is not a solitary unpleasant activity coin miners do to your PC. Teamviewer.exe coin miner additionally deals damage to your operating system. To complete all malevolent operations effectively, it wrecks the protection features of your system. You will likely see your Microsoft Defender disabled – malware halts it to prevent recognition. If you check the HOSTS file, you will likely see a number of new notes – 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 decreasing your system’s performance, performing at peak level for long times may trigger damage to your machine and raise electricity expenses. PC elements are designed to easily get along with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.

Compact and covered processor fan is hard to broke. Meanwhile, graphic cards have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if touched while running, for example, by the user much before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the unusually high load caused by Teamviewer.exe miner can easily lead to GPU failure³. Graphic cards are also prone to have very fast wearing when utilized for crypto mining. It is likely an undesirable situation when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% only after 1-2 weeks of being used in such a way.

How did I get Teamviewer.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

Another way you could get this thing on your computer is by downloading it from the untrustworthy web page as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked versions of favored programs (which do not need the license key) have small chances to earn money. Therefore, there is a very big temptation to add in malware to the final package of the hacked app and receive a coin for each setup. Prior to criticizing these guys for hacking and malware distribution, ask yourself – is it alright to avoid paying for the program in such a way? It is much cheaper to pay $20-$30 one time than to pay a much greater figure for antivirus software as well as new parts for your computer.

How to remove the Teamviewer.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 programs, along with the majority of non-critical operating system components, are not launched with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the PC without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.