Was unable to modify numerous errors regarding directx. Finally deleted xprecision profile files along with uninstall and all cards were operating at max base clock. Completely hidden in profile folder. Was unable to update GeForce Experience.

3 1080 ti’s were cranking it out and running hot with just simple visual studio running.

Working with AV to hunt down. Too many screenshots for here.

Just fyi

?? How do you know it was hacked for mining?

RoyTyrell
That is admittedly a guess. The rest of the system aside from gpu processes were minimally effected.

Were they being used for atomic research by North Korea? (I’m being facetious of course).

They weren’t being used by me. I had nothing running, nothing debugging after a clean shut down and restart.

This is just an fyi. I’m pretty sure it was infected from a nonstandard benchmark. It was not ransomware. But it was persistently hiding gpu usage.

I would not download anything other than 3dmark. I made the mistake of downloading from a third party download site.

Read into it what you will.

There are a lot of mining virii out there.  A wipe and clean install is your safest (which apparently you're doing) solution.

garbage, any user can track down this kind of infection with a few simple tools and manually remove them using ACL's.

I'll be nice and call you ignorant.

I remove mining malware as part of my work, none of them can get so deep in the system that they are untrackable with file and process monitors and stopped in their tracks with the removal of execution priviledges.

Any user could do it, it's not something that requires binary understanding.
 
All of the crypto malwares once installed use a trojan registered as either
 
shell loaded dll
windows service
system service
 
Which downloads an executable to a random location on the system.  This executable is often run as a scheduled task with termination events. It usually has a self defense mechanism which automatically repairs a removal attempt of the trojan loader so in order to get it you have to edit the ownership and permissions of the files to revoke execution status after identifying all of the files.

most of the time you only need autoruns and gpu-shark to spot a crypto malware as it uses service names that try to look like real windows services while operating in a user directory.

Blitqz
So wait, let me get this straight.
 
You're saying that some malware hacked into your computer and is using your gpus for mining cryptocurrency?

 No, he said the miner was hidden in an installer he downloaded from some random website. He downloaded the benchmark and during the installation of the benchmark the miner was installed too.
 

 
Moved to Crypto.

I create a base install with imaging software and just do a clean wipe one a year or so or when it seems to be slower than normal.  Always makes me feel safer and seems to make it run faster for a while....but i am using windows.  It is a pain to redo all the updates, but it makes up for it cause it see small increase in hashing (at least for a while).  Macrium reflect is a free one that seems to work ok, but i've been using an old norton ghost image for a long time.
 
And of course all paper wallets i make are done using an old clunker i have around USB booting into ubuntu trial version while offline...that computer never gets online and it doesn't even have a non-USB OS on it.

 

badFerret
I create a base install with imaging software and just do a clean wipe one a year or so or when it seems to be slower than normal.  Always makes me feel safer and seems to make it run faster for a while....but i am using windows.  It is a pain to redo all the updates, but it makes up for it cause it see small increase in hashing (at least for a while).  Macrium reflect is a free one that seems to work ok, but i've been using an old norton ghost image for a long time.
 
And of course all paper wallets i make are done using an old clunker i have around USB booting into ubuntu trial version while offline...that computer never gets online and it doesn't even have a non-USB OS on it.

Do you have links to the software, I think I'd like to do this at some point soon but I hate having to do fresh installs. At least a base image with some programs where I want them would be better the next time I get around to doing a clean wipe.

ohh my god my computer is not even built yet and im wooried

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