Removing Crypto-Mining Malware with SysInternals Tools

Chris Lazari is an IT and Management Professional with over 20 years of experience in the IT industry. The Internet is his work.
Chris says that he had a Hyper-V server in his work, ordered in the data center for a particular project. He immediately choked something wrong, and loaded and run the Sysinternals Process Explorer to see if it’s possible to determine what causes the performance problem.

 


This article details how Chris solved this problem and what tools and methods he used. To accomplish the task, Chris used the steps that Mark Russinovich detailed in the Tech-ed talk a few years ago titled Malware Hunting with Sysinternals Tools.

 

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