Winnvidia.exe Virus (Coin Miner Trojan) Removal

Winnvidia.exe process comes from a harmful application that can properly be defined as a coin miner trojan virus. That malware type uses your PC components to mine cryptocurrencies, generally – Monero or DarkCoin¹. It makes your personal computer roughly nonfunctional as a result of high CPU utilization.

What is Winnvidia.exe process?

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

Winnvidia.exe – Really high CPU and GPU usage

Besides CPU usage, some of the coin miners additionally make use of GPU power for their operations. In that case, you will likely struggle also to see the mouse arrow moving – GPU is usually used on 100%. It is not as important as CPU for system work, so Winnvidia.exe coin miner viruses don’t waste time on trifles and utilize all of it. It sometimes can lead to bad effects.

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 Winnvidia.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, Winnvidia.exe malware makes your PC overloaded. It is not able to run your applications anymore, because all CPU power is consumed by a malware. That malware does not care for your necessities, all it pays attention to is generating income on you. Even if you are patient, and you waited until browser is open, you will likely suffer from incredibly sluggish performance. Pages will open for years, any type of logins will take about a minute – just a headache for a person who works online.

Winnvidia.exe Technical Summary.

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

“Visible” damage is not a single negative activity coin miners perform to your PC. Winnvidia.exe coin miner likewise deals damage to your OS. To carry out all malicious operations properly, it ruins the security 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 PC to a malicious cryptomining network. All these adjustments shall be reverted to the initial state in the process of system recovery.

Hardware effects of coin miner activity

Besides decreasing your system’s performance, performing at peak power for long times can cause damage to your machine and raise electricity expenses. PC elements are designed to easily deal with high load, but they can do so only in case when they are in a good shape.

Tiny and well-protected processor cooling system is quite hard to damage. Meanwhile, GPUs have big and easy-to-access rotors, which can be easily broke if affected while spinning, for example, by the user much before the virus injection. Malfunctioning cooling system, together with the very high load caused by Winnvidia.exe can easily lead to GPU failure³. GPUs are also tend to have increased wearing when used for cryptocurrency mining. It is likely an unwanted case when your GPU’s performance decreases on 20-30% just after several weeks of being exploited in such a way.

How did I get Winnvidia.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 unreliable web page as a part of a program. People who spread hacked variants of favored programs (which do not require the license key) have small chances to make money. For this reason, there is a huge lure to add malware to the final package of the hacked app and get a coin for every setup. Before blaming these individuals for hacking and also malware distribution, ask yourself – is it OK to avoid buying the program in this manner? It is more affordable to pay $20-$30 at once than to pay a much bigger figure for antivirus software and new parts for your PC.

How to remove the Winnvidia.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-crucial operating system components, are not launched with the system start. That allows you to clean the system without dealing with high processor usage of the coin miner.