Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon Trojan – How to Remove from Your PC

by Ventsislav Krastev | November 7, 2017 | 0 Comments malware, Miner, Miner Malware, Trojan horse

Threat Summary Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon Trojan – Infection Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon – Activity Remove Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon Malware from Your PC

This article aims to help you by explaining methods that show how to remove Minergate.exe Bazon Trojan which mines for cryptocurrencies on your computer.

New miner malware has been detected to install the program Minergate on the computers of victims. The program aims to mine for cryptocurrencies on your computer while crediting the mined tokens to the wallets of the hackers behind the virus. The minergate.exe file itself is not malicious and can be downloaded from the official website of Minergate, however there are many hackers which exploit the good reputation of those files to infect your computer and use it for cryptocurrency mining under the radar of any antivirus programs which may be installed on it.

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Threat Summary

Name	Minergate.exe Trojan
Type	Trojan Horse/Cryptocurrency miner.
Short Description	Aims to mine for different cryptocurrencies at the expense of the victim’s CPU and GPU power.
Symptoms	The main symptoms are minergate.exe running as an active process on your computer and taking power from your CPU and GPU, thus slowing down your PC.
Distribution Method	Via clicking on malicious web links or malicious files.
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User Experience	Join Our Forum to Discuss Minergate.exe Trojan.

Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon Trojan – Infection

In order to infect as many devices they possibly can, the cyber-criminals who are behind the minergate.exe Trojan horse may take advantage of inexperienced users and send the malicious executable file as a fake document via e-mail. Usually such e-mails are made very cleverly to trick you into believing that the attached document is real. Here is one very well disguised example of a malicious spam e-mail which contains malware, like the Win32.Bazon minergate.exe Trojan:

The attached files are usually executable files and experts are detecting more and more Microsoft Word documents disguised as malicious macros. Such documents seem legitimate, but after opening them, the user is asked to “Enable Content” in order to see what is in the document, which triggers the macro infection. This results in various different types of activities happening in the following order:

Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon – Activity

When the Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon infection is triggered on your computer, the malware immediately creates the following file:

→ c:\program files\minergate\minergate.exe

The Win32.Bazon Trojan may also modify various Windows Registry sub-keys, like the following to make the minergate.exe file run automatically with Windows boot:

• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
• HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
• HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

After this is done, the Win32.Bazon Trojan may also perform other activities on the computer of the victim, besides simply mining for cryptocurrencies. Since the malware is a Trojan Horse, it may collect different information from your computer, such as:

Your IP address.
Your network information (neighboring devices).
Log your keystrokes to find passwords and other information that you type online, like Credit Card numbers, etc.
Obtain private keys of your BitCoin or other wallets on your computer.

The Trojan horse’s primary purpose however is to utilize Minergate into using your computer’s resources to their maximum in order to generate revenue to the cyber-criminals behind this malware. This results in you having not only to pay higher electricity bills if the virus is on your computer for longer periods of time, but your computer may also break in the process of mining, due to components over-depreciating in performance.

The malware has the capability of making your computer to mine for the following cryptocurrencies

ZEC ETH ETC BTC LTC BCN XMR FCN QCN XDN MCN DSH AEON BBR

Remove Minergate.exe Win32.Bazon Malware from Your PC

In order to remove this malware completely from your computer system, it recommended that you follow the removal instructions which we have presented down below. They are created to be step-by-step methods that show you how to remove all the related malicious files and objects to minergate.exe mining Trojan from your computer system.

The best method for removal according to malware researchers is to do this automatically, preferably by downloading an advanced anti-malware software. Installing such program will help to automatically detect all the associated files with Minergate.exe malware and remove them while protecting your computer against other intrusions as well.

Ventsislav Krastev

Ventsislav is a cybersecurity expert at SensorsTechForum since 2015. He has been researching, covering, helping victims with the latest malware infections plus testing and reviewing software and the newest tech developments. Having graduated Marketing as well, Ventsislav also has passion for learning new shifts and innovations in cybersecurity that become game changers. After studying Value Chain Management, Network Administration and Computer Administration of System Applications, he found his true calling within the cybersecrurity industry and is a strong believer in the education of every user towards online safety and security.

How to Remove Minergate.exe Trojan from Windows.

Step 1: Boot Your PC In Safe Mode to isolate and remove Minergate.exe Trojan

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1. Hold Windows key() + R

2. The "Run" Window will appear. In it, type "msconfig" and click OK.

3. Go to the "Boot" tab. There select "Safe Boot" and then click "Apply" and "OK".

Tip: Make sure to reverse those changes by unticking Safe Boot after that, because your system will always boot in Safe Boot from now on.

4. When prompted, click on "Restart" to go into Safe Mode.

5. You can recognise Safe Mode by the words written on the corners of your screen.

Step 2: Uninstall Minergate.exe Trojan and related software from Windows

Here is a method in few easy steps that should be able to uninstall most programs. No matter if you are using Windows 10, 8, 7, Vista or XP, those steps will get the job done. Dragging the program or its folder to the recycle bin can be a very bad decision. If you do that, bits and pieces of the program are left behind, and that can lead to unstable work of your PC, errors with the file type associations and other unpleasant activities. The proper way to get a program off your computer is to Uninstall it. To do that:

1. Hold the Windows Logo Button and "R" on your keyboard. A Pop-up window will appear.

2. In the field type in "appwiz.cpl" and press ENTER.

3. This will open a window with all the programs installed on the PC. Select the program that you want to remove, and press "Uninstall"

Follow the instructions above and you will successfully uninstall most programs.

Step 3: Clean any registries, created by Minergate.exe Trojan on your computer.

The usually targeted registries of Windows machines are the following:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce

You can access them by opening the Windows registry editor and deleting any values, created by Minergate.exe Trojan there. This can happen by following the steps underneath:

1. Open the Run Window again, type "regedit" and click OK.

2. When you open it, you can freely navigate to the Run and RunOnce keys, whose locations are shown above.

3. You can remove the value of the virus by right-clicking on it and removing it.

Tip: To find a virus-created value, you can right-click on it and click "Modify" to see which file it is set to run. If this is the virus file location, remove the value.

IMPORTANT!
Before starting "Step 4", please boot back into Normal mode, in case you are currently in Safe Mode.
This will enable you to install and use SpyHunter 5 successfully.

Step 4: Scan for Minergate.exe Trojan with SpyHunter Anti-Malware Tool

1. Click on the "Download" button to proceed to SpyHunter's download page.

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It is recommended to run a scan before purchasing the full version of the software to make sure that the current version of the malware can be detected by SpyHunter. Click on the corresponding links to check SpyHunter's EULA, Privacy Policy and Threat Assessment Criteria.

2. After you have installed SpyHunter, wait for it to update automatically.

3. After the update process has finished, click on the 'Malware/PC Scan' tab. A new window will appear. Click on 'Start Scan'.

4. After SpyHunter has finished scanning your PC for any files of the associated threat and found them, you can try to get them removed automatically and permanently by clicking on the 'Next' button.

If any threats have been removed, it is highly recommended to restart your PC.

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Get rid of Minergate.exe Trojan from Mac OS X.

Step 1: Uninstall Minergate.exe Trojan and remove related files and objects

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Manual Removal Usually Takes Time and You Risk Damaging Your Files If Not Careful!

We Recommend To Scan Your Mac with SpyHunter for Mac

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1. Hit the ⇧+⌘+U keys to open Utilities. Another way is to click on “Go” and then click “Utilities”, like the image below shows:

2. Find Activity Monitor and double-click it:

3. In the Activity Monitor look for any suspicious processes, belonging or related to Minergate.exe Trojan:

Tip: To quit a process completely, choose the “Force Quit” option.

4. Click on the "Go" button again, but this time select Applications. Another way is with the ⇧+⌘+A buttons.

5. In the Applications menu, look for any suspicious app or an app with a name, similar or identical to Minergate.exe Trojan. If you find it, right-click on the app and select “Move to Trash”.

6: Select Accounts, after which click on the Login Items preference. Your Mac will then show you a list of items that start automatically when you log in. Look for any suspicious apps identical or similar to Minergate.exe Trojan. Check the app you want to stop from running automatically and then select on the Minus (“-“) icon to hide it.

7: Remove any left-over files that might be related to this threat manually by following the sub-steps below:

Go to Finder.
In the search bar type the name of the app that you want to remove.
Above the search bar change the two drop down menus to “System Files” and “Are Included” so that you can see all of the files associated with the application you want to remove. Bear in mind that some of the files may not be related to the app so be very careful which files you delete.
If all of the files are related, hold the ⌘+A buttons to select them and then drive them to “Trash”.

In case you cannot remove Minergate.exe Trojan via Step 1 above:

In case you cannot find the virus files and objects in your Applications or other places we have shown above, you can manually look for them in the Libraries of your Mac. But before doing this, please read the disclaimer below:

Disclaimer! If you are about to tamper with Library files on Mac, be sure to know the name of the virus file, because if you delete the wrong file, it may cause irreversible damage to your MacOS. Continue on your own responsibility!

1: Click on "Go" and Then "Go to Folder" as shown underneath:

2: Type in "/Library/LauchAgents/" and click Ok:

3: Delete all of the virus files that have similar or the same name as Minergate.exe Trojan. If you believe there is no such file, do not delete anything.

You can repeat the same procedure with the following other Library directories:

→ ~/Library/LaunchAgents
/Library/LaunchDaemons

Tip: ~ is there on purpose, because it leads to more LaunchAgents.

Step 2: Scan for and remove Minergate.exe Trojan files from your Mac

When you are facing problems on your Mac as a result of unwanted scripts and programs such as Minergate.exe Trojan, the recommended way of eliminating the threat is by using an anti-malware program. SpyHunter for Mac offers advanced security features along with other modules that will improve your Mac’s security and protect it in the future.

Click the button below below to download SpyHunter for Mac and scan for Minergate.exe Trojan:

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Windows Mac OS X Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Safari Internet Explorer Stop Push Pop-ups

Remove Minergate.exe Trojan from Google Chrome.

Step 1: Start Google Chrome and open the drop menu

Step 2: Move the cursor over "Tools" and then from the extended menu choose "Extensions"

Step 3: From the opened "Extensions" menu locate the unwanted extension and click on its "Remove" button.

Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Google Chrome by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.

Windows Mac OS X Google Chrome Mozilla Firefox Microsoft Edge Safari Internet Explorer Stop Push Pop-ups

Erase Minergate.exe Trojan from Mozilla Firefox.

Step 1: Start Mozilla Firefox. Open the menu window

Step 2: Select the "Add-ons" icon from the menu.

Step 3: Select the unwanted extension and click "Remove"

Step 4: After the extension is removed, restart Mozilla Firefox by closing it from the red "X" button at the top right corner and start it again.

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Uninstall Minergate.exe Trojan from Microsoft Edge.

Step 1: Start Edge browser.

Step 2: Open the drop menu by clicking on the icon at the top right corner.

Step 3: From the drop menu select "Extensions".

Step 4: Choose the suspected malicious extension you want to remove and then click on the gear icon.

Step 5: Remove the malicious extension by scrolling down and then clicking on Uninstall.

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Remove Minergate.exe Trojan from Safari.

Step 1: Start the Safari app.

Step 2: After hovering your mouse cursor to the top of the screen, click on the Safari text to open its drop down menu.

Step 3: From the menu, click on "Preferences".

Step 4: After that, select the 'Extensions' Tab.

Step 5: Click once on the extension you want to remove.

Step 6: Click 'Uninstall'.

A pop-up window will appear asking for confirmation to uninstall the extension. Select 'Uninstall' again, and the Minergate.exe Trojan will be removed.

How to Reset Safari
IMPORTANT: Before resetting Safari make sure you back up all your saved passwords within the browser in case you forget them.

Start Safari and then click on the gear leaver icon.

Click the Reset Safari button and you will reset the browser.

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Eliminate Minergate.exe Trojan from Internet Explorer.

Step 1: Start Internet Explorer.

Step 2: Click on the gear icon labeled 'Tools' to open the drop menu and select 'Manage Add-ons'

Step 3: In the 'Manage Add-ons' window.

Step 4: Select the extension you want to remove and then click 'Disable'. A pop-up window will appear to inform you that you are about to disable the selected extension, and some more add-ons might be disabled as well. Leave all the boxes checked, and click 'Disable'.

Step 5: After the unwanted extension has been removed, restart Internet Explorer by closing it from the red 'X' button located at the top right corner and start it again.