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Updated on Mar 16, 2018

This application was stopped from running on your network because it has a poor reputation. This application can also affect the quality of your computing experience. For example, some potentially unwanted applications can:

  • Install additional bundled software
  • Modify your homepage
  • Modify your search provider
  • Perform other actions that you might not have intended

These applications are most commonly software bundlers or installers for applications such as toolbars, adware, or system optimizers. We have observed this application installing software that you might not have intended on your PC.

If you were trying to install an application, you might have downloaded it from a source other than the official product's website.

We usually see this application installed on PCs in the following countries. This list is sorted according to prevalence:

  • Russia
  • United States
  • Korea
  • Japan
  • Turkey

This detection is part of our extended Potentially Unwanted Application protection feature.

Learn more about this type of application: Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

Also detected as: not-a-virus:RiskTool.Win64.BitCoinMiner.tb(Kaspersky)
Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 16, 2018

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.

This threat uses your PC to generate Bitcoins. It installs software that can make your PC run slower than usual.

This threat might have been bundled with other software you installed.

Learn more about this type of threat: Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

Alert level: severe
Updated on Jul 13, 2018

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.

While the specifics of this threat can change, it's designed to mine cryptocurrency and can impact system performance.

Alert level: severe
Updated on Mar 16, 2018

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat. 

This threat downloads and installs other programs, including other malware, onto your PC without your consent. 

Learn more about this type of threat: Invisible resource thieves: The increasing threat of cryptocurrency miners

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