VMProtect Miner Trojan Removal Guide

VMProtect Miner Trojan is a new cryptocurrency miner specialists at 411-spyware.com have recently detected. Cyber criminals have developed it to mine Monero, Bitcoin, and other cryptocurrencies using victims’ computer resources. This infection does not open any window like ordinary programs do, and it is usually installed on systems illegally, so users only notice that their computers’ have started working sluggishly. It is one of the major signs showing that VMProtect Miner Trojan has entered the computer successfully, so if your computer is running slower than usual too, you should go to scan your computer with our diagnostic scanner – click the Download button below the article to get it. If it proves that this Trojan infection is active on your computer, you must disable it as soon as possible because it will not remove itself from your system after some time, we can assure you. It will not only use your computer’s power every day, but you might also eventually discover new malware on your computer. We cannot promise that its removal will be a piece of cake, but there is nothing else you can do to put an end to activities performed by this cryptocurrency miner.

VMProtect Miner Trojan uses VMProtect, a legitimate tool that “protects code by executing it on a virtual machine,” which explains why it has been given the name VMProtect Miner Trojan. The only activity this infection performs on victims’ machines is mining the cryptocurrency, so do not be surprised if your CPU starts working at full swing after the successful installation of this malicious application. Since it uses all PCs’ resources, you might no longer be able to use your computer normally. This usually happens for those users whose machines are older. It might even take longer to open certain websites and/or programs. Luckily, there is one effective solution to the problem – everything will get back to normal after you fully delete VMProtect Miner Trojan from your computer. You should do this as soon as possible because it will not remove itself from your PC. This infection is not an ordinary application, so it will be impossible to erase it using Control Panel. Instead, you will need to find and remove all its components one by one yourself. We will talk about its removal in detail in the last paragraph of this article.

Before we talk about the VMProtect Miner Trojan removal, we want to provide more information about the distribution of this Trojan infection so that you would not allow any similar threats to enter your system again. There is not much information about its distribution available at the moment, but malware researchers at 411-spyware.com believe that it should travel as other Trojans. According to them, the chances are high that it is spread via spam emails. Also, they say that it might be spread via malicious software bundles next to third-party applications. Finally, there is a slight possibility that you have downloaded it by mistake yourself if it is active on your system, specialists say. It acts the same in all the cases. That is, it is still a malicious application no matter how it has shown up on your computer, so you must delete it no matter what. It is not always easy to prevent Trojan infections and other serious malicious applications from entering the system, so we highly recommend installing an automatic security tool on the system so that similar nasty infections could never slither onto your computer again.

We cannot promise that you could easily remove VMProtect Miner Trojan because it is hard to say where all the components of this infection are located – you will need to find them all yourself and then remove them so that this cryptocurrency miner could no longer work on your system. If you cannot find any malicious components, you should use an automatic scanner – your system will be clean after a single scan with such a tool. If you do not have a malware remover yet, you will need to acquire one first. Keep in mind that not all the tools claiming to be trustworthy are reliable, so you should be very cautious.

How to delete VMProtect Miner Trojan

1. Tap Win+E on your keyboard.
2. Check the following directories one after the other and remove all suspicious files you find there:

• %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
• %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
• %TEMP%
• %APPDATA%

3. Empty Recycle bin.