[TUTORIAL] How to delete a vicious cryptocurrency miner / How to be better at using Activity Monitor. (MacOS) maruku Follow Jun 7, 2018 · 5 min read

[Edit : I updated the article, and I spent some time correcting all the typos and stuff. Feel free to report more @mar_uku.

Hi.

MacOS is a safe system.. at least that’s what we want to think. That’s what I wanted to think.

Recently, I noticed a heavy CPU load, caused by something called pplauncher. Some quick search permitted me to find out that it was related to mshelper, a cryptocurrency miner.

Although all those posts were very helpful to find out what it was, none of them really explained how to delete the thing, and even when I searched for “how to delete crypto miner mac os” on Google, none of the results were very pertinent.

This is a (not so) quick tutorial for how to both detect and delete your very own invasive crypto miner.