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Title: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: wildboy211 on June 29, 2011, 04:31:42 AM
I installed Stealth Miner to test it out, but now i cant stop it - i cant kill the process and i deleted all the files except stealthcoin.exe (which it wont let me delete because it says its running), ive tried Revo Uninstaller in hunter mode and that didnt help...any suggestions?


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: SomeoneWeird on June 29, 2011, 04:34:25 AM
boot into safe mode and delete it.


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: wildboy211 on June 29, 2011, 04:35:49 AM
boot into safe mode and delete it.

Ahh, why didnt i think of that? Ill be back...


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: RaTTuS on June 29, 2011, 09:26:05 AM
ctrl-shift-esc [task manager]
kill the process
 the you will be able to delete it


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: SomeoneWeird on June 29, 2011, 09:41:24 AM
ctrl-shift-esc [task manager]
kill the process
 the you will be able to delete it

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i cant kill the process


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: wildboy211 on June 29, 2011, 09:59:28 AM
ctrl-shift-esc [task manager]
kill the process
 the you will be able to delete it

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i cant kill the process

+1


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: RaTTuS on June 29, 2011, 10:01:42 AM
Doh!
maybe I should learn to read  ;)


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: SomeoneWeird on June 29, 2011, 10:05:45 AM
ctrl-shift-esc [task manager]
kill the process
 the you will be able to delete it

Quote
i cant kill the process

+1

Did it work?


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: d.james on July 02, 2011, 12:02:45 AM
so this is the new generation of ad/spyware?


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: SomeoneWeird on July 02, 2011, 01:59:06 AM
so this is the new generation of ad/spyware?

No, it's a hidden miner that you can install on your computer if somebody else uses it.


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: deepceleron on July 04, 2011, 01:56:54 PM
so this is the new generation of ad/spyware?

No, it's a hidden miner that you can install on your computer if somebody else uses it.

It's a hidden miner that you can install on somebody else's computer if you use it.


Title: Re: Stealth Miner - how to stop it?
Post by: SomeoneWeird on July 04, 2011, 02:09:16 PM
so this is the new generation of ad/spyware?

No, it's a hidden miner that you can install on your computer if somebody else uses it.

It's a hidden miner that you can install on somebody else's computer if you use it.

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