What is Mac Cryptominer Virus (Mac)?
Due to the active promotion of cryptocurrency, especially because of constant growth of its price, many users are thinking about making a profit, but no one wants to buy crypto. More and more people are trying to earn by mining. For such purposes, the colossal capacities of the CPU and the GPU are necessary. Of course, this method requires significant energy costs, because computers are operating at full capacity. However, some scammers have found a great way to solve such problems. XMR Miner is the solution. XMR Miner is a program for Mac, which does not pose a particular threat, but has many disadvantages. This program allows attackers to use the resources of user computers remotely. The program runs some processes on the victim’s computer, thereby significantly reducing its performance. The work of the Mac becomes very unstable and can lead to a forced power failure of the Mac, due to overheating of the elements of the motherboard, primarily the processor. This can cause a significant loss of unsaved data. Pay attention to your Mac. If you notice a significant decrease in performance and a constant work of coolers, then this may indicate that your Mac is infected with this program.
How Mac Cryptominer Virus gets on your Mac?
As a rule, Mac Cryptominer Virus penetrates to the Mac being built in downloaders and installers of free software, thereby delivering bundled with popular programs or software updates. Also, sometimes, it comes with email attachments. Users believe the trick of intruders and agree to download updates for the flash player or other programs that require continuous updates. Few users pay attention to the installation process or study the list of supplied additional programs in the installation window. This is a mistake. Always try to download software only Be careful. If your computer is already infected, then use our instructions to remove Mac Cryptominer Virus.
How to remove Mac Cryptominer Virus from your Mac or PC?
To uninstall Mac Cryptominer Virus remove it from Applications, then delete all leftover files and folders.
In our view, there are 2 products that potentially have Mac Cryptominer Virus in their database. You can try to use them for removing Mac Cryptominer Virus.
Recommended Solution:
Bitdefender Antivirus- fully removes all instances of viruses, similar to Mac Cryptominer Virus from Mac and Safari.
Alternative Solution:
MacClean for Mac – finds Mac Cryptominer Virus and can clean up leftover items after removal.
Or uninstall Mac Cryptominer Virus manually.
Step 1: Remove Mac Cryptominer Virus from Mac
Mac Cryptominer Virus may not have app associated with it in Application. However, we recommend you to inspect the list of installed applications and remove unknown or suspicious ones.
Mac OSX:
- Open Finder
- In the Finder sidebar, click Applications
- If you see Uninstall Mac Cryptominer Virus or Mac Cryptominer Virus Uninstaller, double-click it and follow instructions
- Drag unwanted application from the Applications folder to the Trash (located on the right side of the Dock)
Learn more about uninstallation of programs in Mac OSX
To remove leftover items of unwanted application on Mac we recommend you to use AppCleaner. Just drag application you want to remove to AppCleaner window and it will search for residual data on your hard drive. This will save space of your memory and will help to remove stubborn applications from Mac systems.
After that remove Mac Cryptominer Virus from your browser.
Step 2: Remove Mac Cryptominer Virus from browsers
Safari:
- Open Safari
- Click Safari menu.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Mac Cryptominer Virus.
- Click Uninstall button to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Safari.
Google Chrome:
- Open Google Chrome
- Push Alt + F.
- Click Tools.
- Choose Extensions.
- Find Mac Cryptominer Virus.
- Click the trash can icon to remove it.
Learn more about removing extensions from Chrome.
Mozilla Firefox:
- Open Firefox.
- Push Shift + Ctrl + A.
- Choose Mac Cryptominer Virus.
- Click Disable or Remove button.
Learn more about removing extensions from Firefox.
Step 3: Remove following files and folders of Mac Cryptominer Virus:
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Written by Rami Douafi