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

Microsoft Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.

This CoinMiner trojan mines Electroneum cryptocurrency, but its code could support mining other cryptocurrencies. Like other miners, it can cause infected computers to run slower than usual.

TrojanDownloader:Win32/Dofoil.AB has been observed downloading this coin mining trojan and dropping it into the Temp folder as wuauclt.exe.

On March 6, 2018, behavior monitoring and machine learning technologies in Microsoft Defender Antivirus stopped a Dofoil malware (also known as Smoke Loader) that tried to infect more than 400,000 computers. The massive campaign aimed to install a Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner variant that uses victim computers' resources for coin mining purposes. Learn how artificial intelligence stopped the attack within minutes:

Behavior monitoring combined with machine learning spoils a massive Dofoil coin mining campaign

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

Microsoft security software detects and removes this threat.

This threat can perform a number of actions of a malicious hacker's choice on your PC.

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

Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.J is a malicious program that is unable to spread of its own accord. It may perform a number of actions of an attacker's choice on an affected computer.

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

Trojan:Win32/CoinMiner.P is a malicious program that is unable to spread of its own accord. It may perform a number of actions of an attacker's choice on an affected computer.

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