iehighutil.exe - Malware.. forces PC to Bitcoin for Hacker

[aigomorla]

Guys i noticed this little guy floating around.

iehighutil.exe

The thread about it is on here:
http://forums.guru3d.com/showthread.php?t=376065

i first encounted this malware last night as my cousin was informing me his GPU kernal kept failing.

I assumed gpu fault.

I went to see his gpu and noticed it was VERY HOT.. always loaded... network was going crazy on idle.

It seems the hackers now give u bitcoin malware to profit on there hacks.

Lesson ... DONT PIRATE! its not FREE! :biggrin:

But please check your PC for this nasty little malware. Im pretty sure it can be found on other stuff outside games and it effects your GPU.

I can feel GPU's dying from it in masses, cuz Distributive computing is not a stress free environment on your system.

 

[thilanliyan]

Thanks for posting this. It was inevitable really if there's money to be made.

 

[wand3r3r]

I'm sure they'll rename the executable as soon as they find out people are aware.

Great find though!
Send the .exe to Norton, F-Secure, Avast, etc.

 

[aigomorla]

problem with this malware is NOTHING picks it up so far.

So it will pass though most AV / Malware software.

You need to go inside task manager, or msconfig in startup and see if u have a reference to this file.

 

[Ibra]

AMD GPUs are so good for Bitcoin mining hackers don't need to this... Oh wait. :sneaky:

 

[Olikan]

AMD GPUs are so good for Bitcoin mining hackers don't need to this... Oh wait. :sneaky:

i blame amd

 

[bleucharm28]

I of course picked up the virus, sigh! Is gone now, but i've reinstalled Win7. What a pain in the arse.

 

[Rikard]

I of course picked up the virus, sigh! Is gone now, but i've reinstalled Win7. What a pain in the arse.

Just out of curiosity what did you get it from?

Wasn't there a F2P game that allows you to opt in that allows the devs to mine while you play in exchange for in game items? At least that is honest, they give you a choice.

 

[bleucharm28]

I don't know what the deal is, but i believe that iehighult.exe is gone. But my browser constanly crashes and Im unable to load Bioshock Infinite and Crysis 3. I did manage to load and play F1 2012 and played that for hour or so. I had to go through hell to play a stupid game i paid for. I got this error where Steam tell me to delete the "appcache" and it worked until the game i play shuts down. I'm so frustrated now!!!! Checked for Malware and it shows nothing, 0, nada, nothing. WTF man!!!!!

This is what i get when trying load BioShock Infinite:
Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: APPCRASH
Application Name: BioShockInfinite.exe
Application Version: 1.1.21.26939
Application Timestamp: 5155d762
Fault Module Name: BioShockInfinite.exe
Fault Module Version: 1.1.21.26939
Fault Module Timestamp: 5155d762
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Offset: 0017a3b5
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: 0bc0
Additional Information 2: 0bc067b8771d8050acec8bbb329f068a
Additional Information 3: 861b
Additional Information 4: 861bad4452dbb3ffd38a6c5346fb7271

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And for Crysis 3, i get this: i can load, but then crashes or freezes.

Problem signature:
Problem Event Name: BEX
Application Name: crysis3.exe
Application Version: 1.3.0.0
Application Timestamp: 02f2b040
Fault Module Name: StackHash_e110
Fault Module Version: 0.0.0.0
Fault Module Timestamp: 00000000
Exception Offset: 02d9593c
Exception Code: c0000005
Exception Data: 00000008
OS Version: 6.1.7601.2.1.0.256.1
Locale ID: 1033
Additional Information 1: e110
Additional Information 2: e110ba26e624d11dafb9207fbbaa95ab
Additional Information 3: a2e5
Additional Information 4: a2e5bde2c696d5a19131b14ed16b9830

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