What virus removal tool will get rid of PPminer

Not popular and heavy handed approach

CleanMyMac

For Apple Silicon computer >> Use Disk Utility to erase a Mac with Apple silicon.

For Apple Intel computers >>   Use Disk Utility to erase an Intel-based Mac followed by How to reinstall macOS

Always make a Time Machine Backup  before  proceeding 

If going this route - I suggest Not using Startup Assist to migrate everything back.

This will probably Re-Introduce ( BrickMyMac ) back into the Operating System 

Do not use third party apps that claim to protect, clean, manage, boost performance, etc. These apps use system resources while providing no benefit. And they may cause problems. Uninstall CleanMyMac and the third party anti virus app they had you install.

I’d not particularly expect PPminer here; that’s an old cryptominer and roughly six years old. It shows up by a very busy mshelper process.

Easy enough to check for it, though.

There are three files involved:

~/Library/Application Support/pplauncher/pplauncher
/tmp/mshelper/mshelper
/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.pplauncher.plist

Though this also wouldn’t be the first false positive from an add-on tool, either.

Uninstall CleanMyMac.

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kathleenfromsolon wrote:

I used Clean My Mac app, and it found that PPminer is installed on my computer, but it said it couldn't get rid of it.

Are you having a issue...?

Why "CleanMyMac" (?)