How to remove the LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 CPU Miner?

Once the trojan and LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 are on your computer, you will automatically start mining this in the background, whether you like it or not.
You will notice that this process doesn’t arrive on its own. Normally, it comes with content you get from the internet.
There are some legitimate downloads that include this LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 process.
However, they chose not to disclose it. So yes, you can end up with this process running without your knowledge.

How does the LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 process affect your computer?
What you have to keep in mind is that this is a process focused on both your graphics card and CPU.
The way you identify this process is when you see your graphics card and CPU at 90% or 100% usage even if you don’t do anything major.
Another way to identify this problem is when your programs take a lot of time to launch, and your computer is very slow.
In case you see this, and your GPU or CPU fans are very noisy, then you have to check the processes and see if LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 is in there.
If that’s the case, don’t panic. We are here to help you figure out how to remove it quickly.

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How to remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 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 LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 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 LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 in their description. Discover the directories where such processes start. Search for random or strange file names.

Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 virus from running processes

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

Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 virus from Windows services

Disable the services with random names or contains LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 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 LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2. Disable unknown tasks with random names.

STEP 6: Clear the Windows registry from LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 virus.
Press Win+R, type in: regedit.exe and press OK.

Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 virus from Windows registry

Find and delete all keys/values contains LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2.

STEP 7: Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 from Google Chrome.

STEP 8: Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 from Internet Explorer.

Set Internet Explorer Homepage

STEP 9: Remove LACIE-BROWSER-2-V2 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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