How To Remove Cryptoloot.pro Miner Trojan From Computer

What is Cryptoloot.pro Miner?

Cryptoloot.pro Miner is Trojan Horse Malware that uses infected computers to mine XMR, Monero or digital currency like bitcoins. This trojan miner is usually bundled with the programs user downloads from the internet.

Unfortunately, when you install the downloaded program this miner automatically gets installed, without any permission from the user.

Once this malicious miner is installed, it will create an autorun with some randomname.exe, that would later run a script which would install the CPU miner on victim’s computer.

This CPU miner will now use 70% of graphics card and CPU’s power resource that would slow down the computer while surfing or while playing games you will face noticeable lags or frequent freezes.

The reason why it uses such power is to generate revenue for itself using the infected system, this would make the CPU to run at a very high temperature reducing the life of the CPU.

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Targeted browser:

1. Internet Explorer.
2. Google chrome.
3. Mozilla Firefox.
4. Safari.

How does Cryptoloot.pro Miner Trojan infect a system?

1. Trojan gets into a computer by exploiting its vulnerability.
2.  Trojan gets installed on a victim’s computer without his knowledge, it comes bundled with the desired program and gets installed along with it.
3. Other common techniques used by Trojans is through browser hijacking via adware, when the browser is infected with these hijackers or add-on extensions, it will redirect the web browser to a website which could be infected with a strong Trojan horse malware.
4. Trojan could also infect the computer through hard drives or any portable media while trying to install a program.
5. The infected computer would act as a botnet which would infect the complete network and the other devices connected to it. 
6. Older version of windows or legacy products are the easiest targets, as their security is outdated and can be very easily breached.

Effects of Trojan on the infected system:

1. Initially, it blocks all the Anti Viruses, Anti-malware, and all the third-party firewalls.
2. Trojan would block any installation process that’s been carried on the computer.
3. The malware authors can easily use Trojan to steal banking id password or credit card information.
4.  It can infect all the devices connected to the same network i.e. smart TV, computers, smartphones or any game station devices.
5. It creates a log file with all the user id and password, searches history of the browser and will later send it to the hacker.
6. It can make use of user’s confidential files for the illegal purpose.
7. It can use the computer to do criminal activities like stealing information from others computers or using other victim’s personal details on the infected computer.  
8. It disables the inbuilt firewall.