Windows 10: SearchFilterHost is overloading my pc. I Suspect a virus-miner. Please Help.

As you can see Its actually Search Filter Host and Search Protocol Host. I downloaded some files from different sites and i think i got a virus-miner. Virustotal didnt detected anything, but something fishy is going on. The red and orange colors are energy usage and maybe CPU is a lot higher in usage also, its might just be hacked by virus. My PC is noisy right now thats for sure.

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SearchFilterHost

Running windows 10. My laptop is now running slow because of SearchFilterHost. How do i fix it ?. Can i just uninstall it ?

 

FU suspected virus

Hi Alan,

Thank you for posting your query in Microsoft Community, and we in Community will try to resolve your issue the best way we can.

Please provide more information to help you better:

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  Do you have multiple anti-virus software activated in your system?
  
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  Is this issue occur in a local account or the Microsoft account?
  
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  Have you made any changes to the pc prior to this issue?
  

I suggest you to Sign out from the current user account restart the pc and login to the admin account or the Microsoft account to check if that helps.

I also suggest you to install any pending updates on the pc to check if that helps. Updates are additions to software that can help prevent or fix problems, improve how your computer works, or enhance your computing experience.

If issue still persists, I suggest you to
download the Safety Scanner, and boot the system in safe mode with networking and then perform a full pc virus scan and check if it helps.

Microsoft safety scanner:

Let’s try to run the Microsoft safety scanner and check, if your computer is infected by malware.

The Microsoft Safety Scanner is a free downloadable security tool, that provides on-demand scanning and helps remove viruses, spyware, and other malicious software. It works with your existing antivirus software.

http://www.microsoft.com/security/scanner/en-us/default.aspx

Note: The Microsoft Safety Scanner expires 10 days after being downloaded. To rerun a scan with the latest anti-malware definitions, download and run the Microsoft Safety Scanner
again.

Note: Any data files that are infected may only be cleaned by deleting the file entirely, which means there is a potential for data loss.

You may use the steps mentioned in this link to boot to Safe Mode with Networking

Windows help & learning - Microsoft Support

Hope this information helps. Reply to the post with updated status of the issue so that we can assist you further.

 

Possible Bitcoin Miner

Hello, for a while now I have had what I think a bitcoin miner on my PC but now I am deciding to do something about it, well, at least I tried to. Basically, I recently installed Malwarebytes to see if it would pick up this "miner." This "miner" would use
Notepad and it would use about 20% of my CPU (that's why I assumed it was a bitcoin miner.) Malwarebytes has picked up nothing in the virus scan. I removed Notepad from my PC as I didn't use it, but now I keep getting notifications from Malwarebytes of it
blocking this website due to a "Trojan": pool-nyc.supportxmr.com

Malwarebytes also says the "Trojan" is coming from explorer.exe, but when I scan with this anti-virus it picks up nothing.