{"id":7138,"date":"2015-09-03T07:12:08","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T07:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/?p=7138"},"modified":"2015-09-03T07:12:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-03T07:12:08","slug":"cpm-exe-cpuminer-and-llc-kelte-proekt-removal-instructions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/cpm-exe-cpuminer-and-llc-kelte-proekt-removal-instructions\/","title":{"rendered":"cpm.exe, CPUMiner and LLC &#8220;Kelte-Proekt&#8221; &#8211; Removal Instructions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran into a <strong>Bitcoin miner<\/strong> this morning called\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/library\/file\/cpm.exe-200630\/\">cpm.exe<\/a>. If you have cpm.exe on your machine, you&#8217;ll see it in the Task Manager:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpm.exe-task-manager.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7139\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpm.exe-task-manager.png\" alt=\"cpm.exe task manager\" width=\"684\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpm.exe-task-manager.png 684w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/cpm.exe-task-manager-300x96.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 684px) 100vw, 684px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The cpm.exe file is digitally signed by a Ukrainian company called <strong>LLC &#8220;Kelte-Proekt&#8221;<\/strong>:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LLC-Kelte-Proekt-cert.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7140\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LLC-Kelte-Proekt-cert.png\" alt=\"LLC Kelte-Proekt cert\" width=\"397\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LLC-Kelte-Proekt-cert.png 397w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/LLC-Kelte-Proekt-cert-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 397px) 100vw, 397px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>cpm.exe was <strong>bundled<\/strong> with an unofficial download of Google Chrome:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CPUMiner.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7141\" src=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CPUMiner.png\" alt=\"CPUMiner\" width=\"816\" height=\"176\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CPUMiner.png 816w, https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/CPUMiner-300x64.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 816px) 100vw, 816px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You can easily <strong>remove cpm.exe<\/strong> with <a title=\"About FreeFixer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/about-freefixer\/\">FreeFixer<\/a>. Just select cpm.exe under &#8220;Registry Startups&#8221; and &#8220;Processes&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Hope that helped you figure out what cpm.exe is, how it got onto your machine and how to remove it.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just ran into a Bitcoin miner this morning called\u00a0cpm.exe. If you have cpm.exe on your machine, you&#8217;ll see it in the Task Manager: The cpm.exe file is digitally signed by a Ukrainian company called LLC &#8220;Kelte-Proekt&#8221;: cpm.exe was bundled with an unofficial download of Google Chrome: You can easily remove cpm.exe with FreeFixer. Just &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/cpm-exe-cpuminer-and-llc-kelte-proekt-removal-instructions\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">cpm.exe, CPUMiner and LLC &#8220;Kelte-Proekt&#8221; &#8211; Removal Instructions<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[81,304,305],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7138"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7144,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7138\/revisions\/7144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freefixer.com\/b\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}