Do you see a process named dgen.exe running at 99% or even 100% CPU usage? If that is the case someone is mining Bitcoins on your machine!
The dgen.exe Bitcoin miner has been around for some time. I first spotted it about a month ago, but for some reason I chose not to blog about it at that time. However, today I found it again, bundled with another download, so I thought I should post about it after all. Many of the anti-virus programs detect it as you can see in the scan result from VirusTotal:
How did you get dgen.exe on your machine? Please share by posting a comment.
To remove the dgen.exe bitcoin miner you can check the dgen.exe process and the starthelp.exe service for removal in FreeFixer. This will also fix the high CPU usage that you probably see on your machine.
The starthelp.exe service appear as “Protect Monitor”:
Here’s a video where I show FreeFixer in action while removing dgen.exe and starthelp.exe:
Hope you found this useful. Thank you for watching!
Update 2014-08-11: I’ve seen a few cases where other filenames appear in the “c:\Program Files\PCDapp” folder:
- cudaminer.exe
Wish you can help / fix this issue…
Did you try the removal procedure with FreeFixer as shown in the video?
works perfectly for my computer, thank you guys 🙂
Thanks for the feedback. Great to hear you solved the dgen.exe problem. Any idea how you got it on your machine?
Im seeing a process called windows7.exe on my system for a few weeks now and it uses 99% of my cpu just like the dgen so can i remove it with this tool?