What is PUA.WASMCOINMINER?

I suggest you to remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER from your PC as soon as possible!
Tried to remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER? Cannot completely delete PUA.WASMCOINMINER, because it gets back?
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How PUA.WASMCOINMINER got on your computer?

Like many potentially unwanted programs, PUA.WASMCOINMINER can be installed on your computer as part of a bundle with another tool you downloaded from the Internet. Since PUA.WASMCOINMINER manufacturer pays software developers for distributing PUA.WASMCOINMINER within their applications, PUA.WASMCOINMINER is often included as part of the installer.
PUA.WASMCOINMINER is also often distributed with free games and simple, one-click freeware tools developed specifically with the purpose of getting PUA.WASMCOINMINER onto as many computers as possible.
Usually, you have not only one PUA.WASMCOINMINER problem, but a bunch of similar WIN32:PUPs.

How dangerous is PUA.WASMCOINMINER?

While PUA.WASMCOINMINER is not considered illegal and is not officially classified as malware, it poses a direct threat to your privacy. Since PUA.WASMCOINMINER runs alongside your Web browser, it can collect and transmit information such your search queries, Web forms and passwords, names and messages, track Web sites that you visit, and do much more on your computer without you even knowing. PUA.WASMCOINMINER was reported to cause significant slowdowns in browser performance, making Web page load times much longer compared to a clean system.

On a scale of 1 to 5 (with 1 being "mostly harmless", 3 being "invasive" and 5 being "dangerous"), PUA.WASMCOINMINER can be rated as a 3.

You have 2 ways to remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER:

1. Remove Automatically.
2. Remove Manually.

Why I recommend you to use an automatic way?

1. You know only one virus name: "PUA.WASMCOINMINER", but usually you have infected by a bunch of viruses.
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Here’s how to remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER virus automatically:

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So it was much easier to fix such problem automatically, wasn't it?
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How to remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER manually:

STEP 1: Check all shortcuts of your browsers on your desktop, taskbar and in the Start menu. Right click on your shortcut and change it's properties.

You can see PUA.WASMCOINMINER at the end of shortcut target (command line). Remove it and save changes.

In addition, check this command line for fake browser's trick.
For example, if a shortcut points to Google Chrome, it must have the path:
C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe.
Fake browser may be: …\Appdata\Roaming\HPReyos\ReyosStarter3.exe.
Also the file name may be: “chromium.exe” instead of chrome.exe.

STEP 2: Investigate the list of installed programs and uninstall all unknown recently installed programs.

STEP 3: Open Task Manager and close all processes, related to PUA.WASMCOINMINER in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER virus from running processes

STEP 4: Inspect the Windows services. Press Win+R, type in: services.msc and press OK.

Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains PUA.WASMCOINMINER in it's name or description.

STEP 5: After that press Win+R, type in: taskschd.msc and press OK to open Windows Task Scheduler.

Delete any task related to PUA.WASMCOINMINER. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from PUA.WASMCOINMINER virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains PUA.WASMCOINMINER.

STEP 7: Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove PUA.WASMCOINMINER from Mozilla Firefox.

Change Firefox Home Page

STEP 10: And at the end, clear your basket, temporal files, browser's cache.

But if you miss any of these steps and only one part of virus remains – it will come back again immediately or after reboot.

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Enjoy!

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