Wdscore.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Wdscore.exe executable file belongs to a harmful application that can properly be recognized as a coin miner virus. That malware form utilizes your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer pretty much unfunctional as a result of high CPU utilization.

What is Wdscore.exe process?

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

Wdscore.exe – Really high CPU/GPU use

Besides CPU consumption, some of the coin miners additionally use GPU power for their tasks. In that situation, you will probably struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as crucial as CPU for system work, so Wdscore.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and use all of it. It sometimes may lead to sad consequences.

Shortly about cryptocurrency mining

List of the typical coin miner symptoms

Microsoft Defender is stopped;

CPU and GPU is loaded at 80-90% exactly after the system start

Cooling fans are running at high speed and create a lot of noise

A single process in Task Manager consumes all CPU and GPU power

How dangerous is the Wdscore.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, Wdscore.exe malware makes your system overloaded. It is unable to run your applications now, since all CPU power is used by a malware. That malware does not care for your necessities, all it focuses on is generating profits on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely experience incredibly slow efficiency. Pages can open up for years, any kind of logins will take about a minute – just a headache for a person who works online.

Wdscore.exe Technical Summary.

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

“Visible” damage is not a single bad activity coin miners do to your system. Wdscore.exe coin miner also deals damage to your operating system. To carry out all malevolent functions properly, it ruins the protection components 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 number of new entries – they are brought in by this coin miner to connect your PC to a malicious cryptomining network. All these changes shall be gone back to the original in the process of PC recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides making your PC slow, running at peak power for a long period of time can trigger damage to your device as well as increase electricity costs. PC components are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only when they are in a good shape.

Little and well-protected CPU fan is hard to crack. Meanwhile, graphic cards have large and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily cracked if touched while working, for instance, by the user much earlier before the malware injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the very high load caused by Wdscore.exe malware can easily lead to graphic card failure³. GPUs are also tend to have fast wearing when used for cryptocurrency mining. It is surely an undesirable case when your GPU’s performance plunges 20-30% just after 1-2 weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Wdscore.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 untrustworthy website as a part of a program. Users that spread hacked versions of well-known programs (which do not demand the license key) have small chances to get paid. Thus, there is a huge temptation to add malware to the final package of the hacked app and receive a coin for each installation. Before criticizing these people 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 at once than to pay a much greater sum for antivirus program and new parts for your computer.

How to remove the Wdscore.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, just like the majority of non-critical operating system components, are not started with the system start. That gives you the ability to clean the system without dealing with high CPU usage of the coin miner.