Great Discover is a cryptocurrency-mining malware program that uses the resources (RAM, CPU, GPU) of your computer to generate cryptocurrencies for its creators. Great Discover can be used for mining Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Litecoin, etc., which could severely impact the performance of your system.
The goal of Great Discover isn’t to damage your computer – it doesn’t delete any files, corrupt the system, or spy on you. Its sole purpose is to mine cryptocurrency by exploiting the resources of your machine. On a more powerful computer, the user may not even notice the presence of the virus unless he/she tries to run some resource-intensive program that requires lots of RAM, CPU, or GPU to run.
What is Great Discover?
Great Discover is a type of cryptocurrency-mining virus that engages the computer’s RAM, GPU, and CPU to mine Bitcoin, Ethereum, Monero, XRP, and other cryptocurrencies. To evade detection, Great Discover may be set to operate only when the computer isn’t being used.
The reason why a lot of users that have the Great Discover virus may not be aware of its presence in the system is exactly this – the cryptocurrency-mining process could be set to only start when the computer isn’t being used. Some users may not even mind the fact that Great Discover is on their computer, so long as it doesn’t impact the system performance when they are using the computer. It should be noted, though, that even if you aren’t noticing the presence of Great Discover, the rogue program is still there, running its processes without your permission, and it wouldn’t be too far-fetched to assume that at a certain point it may attempt to do something else without requesting approval from you (such as downloading more undesirable programs on the computer).
The Great Discover app
The Great Discover app is rogue software that carries a cryptocurrency-mining Trojan that forces the computer to generate Bitcoin, Dask, Litecoin, Monero, and other cryptocurrencies. The Great Discover app should be removed from the computer immediately because it causes severe slow-downs and performance issues.
The Great Discover app can be any app that is used to deliver the Trojan into the users’ computers – it carries the Trojan as a bundled component and installs it automatically on the computer, oftentimes without the user’s informed approval. For this reason, it’s crucial to always pay attention to the installation settings and options when running the installer of a new program. Never allow an installer to add bonus software to your system on top of the main program that is getting installed unless you think you may want to get that bonus software.
The Great Discover virus
The Great Discover virus is a sneaky Trojan Horse designed to leech resources (GPU, CPU, RAM) off your system and use them for mining Monero, XRP, Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. Having the Great Discover on a computer typically causes slow-downs, freezes, and even crashes.
The behavior and performance impact that Great Discover may have on your computer varies depending on which version of the Trojan you may have. In some cases, you may barely notice that the Trojan is there, but in other instances, the system may become almost unusable due to severe slow-downs and freezes caused by the excessive use of system resources. Regardless of what your exact situation is, removing Great Discover is still the best course of action.
There are quite a few other similar rogue programs that may get installed alongside Great Discover, so it may be a good idea to check your computer for the following list of unwanted/hazardous software components that are commonly associated with this Trojan. If you find any of them on your computer, follow the provided links to find out how to delete them.
Is Great Discover a virus?
Great Discover is a virus program that gets delivered into the system by a rogue app of the same name. The Great Discover virus silently uses large amounts of CPU, RAM, and GPU to generate Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum and other cryptocurrencies, for its creators.
One other thing that has led researchers to categorize this rogue program as a Trojan Horse virus is its ability to remain in the system and even re-install itself automatically in spite of the users’ attempts to remove it. There is an uninstaller for Great Discover, but simply running it to delete the program typically isn’t enough. There would still be files, settings, and Registry items left after you’ve seemingly removed Great Discover that could allow it to return to your computer. For that reason, it’s important to find and delete everything linked to this Trojan in order to be sure that it has truly left your system.
SUMMARY:
Name
The Great Discover Virus
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Trojan
Detection Tool
How to uninstall Great Discover
To uninstall Great Discover, these are the steps you’d need to perform:
You will probably need some more details about the steps above, so we recommend reading the following lines to gain a better insight into what exactly you are supposed to do in order to eliminate this virus.
Step 1: Run the Uninstaller
Note 1: if you are offered by the uninstaller to keep anything related to the program on your computer, refuse any such offers – you must make sure that everything that may be related to this program gets removed.
Note 2: It’s possible that another rogue/unreliable program is responsible for getting Great Discover installed on your computer, so it is a good idea to check the Programs and Features list once again for any other recent installs that seem questionable and that may be related to the Trojan virus. If you see anything that may not be welcome on your computer and/or that is unfamiliar to you, you should uninstall it.
Step 2: Search for Great Discover processes
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Running the Uninstaller.exe and uninstalling Great Discover with its help should end any related processes, but it’s still worth checking the Task Manager for rogue processes just in case. Note that running the uninstaller won’t fully get rid of the Great Discover Trojan, so there are more things to be done to complete the removal.
Open the Task Manager with the help of the Ctrl + Shift + Esc combination from the keyboard and go to the Processes tab. First, search the shown processes for anything named Great Discover or Devine and if you find such an item (or items), right-click it, select Open File Location, right-click the process again, and now select End Process. After that, delete the File Location folder that you opened.
If you didn’t find any Great Discover or Devine processes, look for other suspicious entries (especially ones with high CPU and/or memory usage) that have unusual names or names you don’t recognize. If you find anything you that raises your suspicion, tell us about the process in the comments section, or simply look up its name to see if security researchers have warned about it being rogue.
Another thing you could do is go to the File Location of the process (like we showed you above) and scan the files there with a reliable malware scanner. We recommend the scanner posted below. It is free to use on our site and requires no installation – just drag and drop any file you want to get scanned. Obviously, if even a single file from the file location of the process is detected as a threat, this means that the process must be stopped and its folder – deleted.
Hopefully, by now, you should have a good idea of whether the suspected process is indeed harmful or not. If it is, you already know what to do, but if you didn’t find anything that suggests it may be a threat, it’s better to leave it be as it may be a legitimate system process that mustn’t be touched.
Step 3: Safe Mode
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To prevent the Trojan from starting any rogue processes again, we recommend that you get the system into Safe Mode and operate from within that mode during the rest of this guide.
Step 4: Clean system settings
There are several types of system settings that may have been altered by the virus and that you need to restore to their regular states.
First, you need to check the Hosts file – to find and open it, first go to the hard drive where Windows is installed (on most computers that’s the C: drive). Then find and open this folder: Windows/System32/Drivers/etc. There, you will see the Hosts file – double-click on it, and when asked to select a program, click on Notepad to open the file with it.
Next, see if there are any strange IP addresses or other questionable text at the bottom of the file (right below the “Localhost” lines). If you find anything there, copy it and send it in the comments below – we will have a look and tell you if the text/IPs are from the virus. If they are, you will have to delete them from the file and save the changes you’ve made.
The next thing you must check is the DNS settings – you can do this by typing ncpa.cpl in the Start Menu, click the first thing, right-click on the icon of the network you typically use, and go to Properties. Here, you must click on the Internet Protocol Version 4 item and have a look at its properties (click the next Properties button). In the next window, there should be an option labeled Obtain DNS server automatically – if that option isn’t enabled, click on it to enable it and then go to Advanced. In the Advanced window, select DNS, delete any IPs that may be listed in the list there, and save the changes by selecting OK on everything.
The third thing you should check is the list of Startup items – go to it by typing msconfig in the Start Menu, pressing Enter, and then clicking on the Startup tab from in the System Configuration window that opens. There, look through the list and if there are any items named Great Discover or Devine, uncheck them. Also, look for other suspicious or unknown items and uncheck them as well. Additionally, pay attention to the Manufacturer column – anything with an unknown manufacturer or with Devine as the manufacturer must also be unchecked. Once all potentially rogue items have been deselected, click on OK.
Step 5: Delete leftover files
There are several files that Great Discover has likely left on your computer after you uninstalled it in Step 1 – you must find and delete those files. Before that, however, we suggest “unhiding” the hidden files and folders on your computer. For that, type Folder Options in the Start Menu, press Enter, and click the View tab in the newly-opened window. Look through the listed options, find the one labeled Show hidden files, folders, and drives, enable it, and then click on OK.
Now, depending on the version of Great Discover that you have, the files that may have been left behind are likely to differ. Here are the files left behind by the different versions of the Trojan:
Note 1: If you have chosen to install Great Discover in a different folder, then the Great Discover folder will be located there and that’s where you must search for the remaining files.
Note 2: If you don’t know which version of Great Discover you have on your computer, then simply go to C:\Program Files\Devine Software Oy\Great Discover(or in whatever other folder you’ve installed the program, and delete that folder with everything that’s in it.
Note 3: If anywhere in the system you find files that seem suspicious and you think they could be related to Great Discover, do not hesitate to use the aforementioned free malware scanner that’s on our site to test them for malicious code and to delete them if the scanner flags them as threats.
Step 6: Clean the Registry
The last thing to do in this guide is to go the Registry Editor tool and use it to clean the Registry of your computer from Great Discover items. Open the Editor by searching for the regedit.exe executable in the Start Menu and selecting the first app that gets shown. Once asked for permission, click on Yes and the Editor will start.
In the Registry Editor window, go to Edit from the top and select Find. Search for Great Discover and delete any items that may get found. Note that after every deleted item, you must search again to ensure there aren’t more remaining items. Once there are no more search results for Great Discover, search for Devine and delete any items that you may find.
Next, use the sidebar to the left to manually navigate to the following Registry directories and keys. The entries listed below should have already been deleted by you when you searched for Great Discover and Devine, but it’s still recommended trying to find them manually, just in case anything has been left undeleted. Again, the entries that may be left behind depend on the Great Discover version that you may have:
Once you’ve checked for those Registry items and deleted any of them you may have found, restart your computer and see if the Trojan is gone from it.
If Great Discover is still active on the computer
If you notice that the Great Discover is still leeching resources from your system to mine cryptocurrencies, it may be best if you get a specialist to have a look at your system or use a professional removal tool to take care of the Trojan miner.
We cannot help you with the latter option, but we can recommend you a strong and reliable anti-malware tool that can find and get rid of any rogue data that may still be present on the computer. You can find the anti-malware tool linked throughout the guide, so give it a go if you are still having problems with Great Discover and would like to get rid of it once and for all.
In ancient times people lived on whatever food they could find. As the early people 1______ in numbers, they had to wander and search for wild fruits and seeds of wild plants or hunt for small animals.
Then one of these early people 2______ a great discovery. A great genius discovered the meaning of seeds. He may have noticed that where some seeds had fallen on the ground, new plants grew. Perhaps he was 3______ enough to put some seeds in the ground to see what would happen. No one knows how it happened, but man 4______ that if he put a seed into the soil it could grow into a plant which might yield hundreds or even thousands of seeds!
He was free of the need to be in a constant 5______of his food!
Early man could now 6______ seeds in the spring and wait for them to grow.
In the fall he could gather a harvest of seeds. There would be enough to 7______ himself and his family all through the winter, with some left over for planting when spring came.
This discovery was the beginning of 8______ and the most important change that ever happened to people on earth.
8. А) gardening; Б) cropping; В) cultivation; Г) farming 8. А) садоводство; Б) урожай; В) выращивание; Г) сельское хозяйство
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Light from the Past
When you stand and look at the stars, you are really looking at past history. The light from Alkaid, the end star in the handle of the Big Dipper, has taken about 210 years to 1______ your eyes. If Alkaid stopped 2______ today, people on earth would still see it 3______ about 210 years. Some of the stars you see here tonight may have stopped existing several thousand years ago. The light from some 4______ stars right now will not be seen on earth until thousands, or even millions, of years from now!
It’s 5______ breathtaking, and it 6______ to the great mystery about the nature of light. Think about water waves. They get smaller and smaller in amplitude as they travel. Their energy is lost in friction among the water molecules. Think of sound waves in air. They too get weaker and weaker because of friction among the air molecules.
But light waves stop only if they strike something, and their energy is transferred 7______ another form. 8______, they can go on and on, at the same terrific speed, with no loss of energy, forever!
1. A) approach; Б) reach; В) hit; Г) achieve
2. A) burning; Б) flashing; В) blushing; Г) shining
3. A) after; Б) through; В) for; Г) at
4. A) farewell; Б) faraway; В) far; Г) fair
5. A) quit; Б) quick; В) quiet; Г) quite
6. A) enlarges; Б) increases; В) adds; Г) multiplies
7. A) into; Б) onto; В) for; Г) at
8.A) although; Б) otherwise; В) whatever; Г) either
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The First Day at School
Do you remember your first day at school? It was probably1____ confusing. Now, to 2____ this confusion, many primary schools in England have a special teacher who welcomes new pupils. She is 3____ a reception class teacher. The children are 4____ with the idea of school and if they have been good, they can’t understand why they have to go to school. They imagine that school isoptional. When the child goes to school on his first day and watches his mother leaving he thinks that she is deserting him. The teacher must 5____ him that at the end of the day his mother will be back and take him home. The children are not the only people that are disturbed by going to school. The teacher sometimes has as much difficulty in 6____ with the mothers. They hang around and dislike leaving the child without their protection.
The best way to 7____ with the situation is to get the child used to the idea of school. Before the beginning of term, the mother should take her child to see the teacher and to look 8____ the school. The first day should be something to emphasize the regularityof school.
1. А) enough; Б) rarely; В) rather; Г) equally
2. A) escape; Б) defeat; В) beat; Г) avoid
3. A) named; Б) called; В) said; Г) told
4. A) afraid; Б) threatened; В) endangered; Г) risked
5. A) convince; Б) prove; В) explain; Г) announce
6. A) managing; Б) guiding; В)coping; Г) handling
7. A) face; Б) deal; В) touch; Г) consider
8. A) through; Б) about; В) after; Г) round
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Your Future World
What will you be doing in 2025? Will you be living in an undersea research station? Will you be the chief engineer 1______ a bridge across the Atlantic Ocean? Will you be leading an 2______ to the planet Mars? Will you be …?
You can daydream, of course, but nobody knows exactly what the world will be 3______. But scientists have made some guesses.
Based on the advances made, they believe people will be healthier. Diphtheria, malaria, tuberculosis, polio and many other killers are under control now. These diseases are on the way out, 4______ to микроб germ-killing chemicals, new ways of finding out about our bodies, and new ways of providing clean, safe 5______and water.
Healthier people live longer, so we can expect the world’s population to 6______ sharply. It may double in the next forty years! This brings up a serious problem: how will we find food, water, and minerals for such a huge population?
Scientists are at work on some 7______. From the ocean they hope to get new fertilizers to increase the yield of the soil; new chemicals to kill crop-destroying insects without 8______ other animals, new sources of water or supplies of food.
1. A) inventing; Б) designing; В) scheming; замышлять недоброе, строить тайные планы to make a secret plan in order to get an advantage, usually by deceiving peopleГ) doing
2. A) exploration; Б) expenditure /ɪkˈspendɪtʃər/ расход, тратthe total amount of money that a government or person spends а; В) expedition; Г) exhibit
3. A) like; Б) alike похожий; В) likely; возможный, вероятный Г) likable симпатичный A likeable person is pleasant and easy to like:
4. A) as a result; Б) because; В) on account; Г) thanks
5. A) eat; Б) feed; В) food; Г) cooking
6. A) decrease; Б) distract; В) dissolve; Г) increase
7. A) solutions; Б) alternatives; В) preferences; Г) questions
8. A) hurting; Б) harming; В) injuring; Г) wounding
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Alaska
The first Europeans to visit what is now called Alaska were Russian sailors led by Captain Bering. The 1______ was funded by Russian czar Peter the Great. In 1728 Bering and his crew 2______ through the strait that is now named after him,between the easternmost part of Asia and the westernmost part of the Americas. Their journey 3______ that Asia was not connected to North America; however, due to the heavy fog, they never actually saw the nearby land of North America. In 1741 Bering headed further south, landing on tiny Kayak Island off the 4______ of what is now the southeastern part of the state.
The 8______ of gold in 1896 in the Yukon Territory started a huge gold rush that brought thousands of settlers.
1. A) travel; Б) trip; В) journey; Г) expedition
2. A) paddled; Б) sailed; В) travelled; Г) rowed
3. A) proved; Б) convinced; В) persuaded; Г) appeared
8. A) discovery; Б) detection; В) exploration; Г) innovation
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Ordinary
“I can’t 2______ that hair-do”, she said when I went to the hairdresser with my friend and came back with a pageboy haircut straight out of Seventeen magazine, “It’s so terribly ordinary”. Not ugly, not unsuitable. But ordinary.
Her 3______ of ordinariness came out most strongly in her clothes.
“Couldn’t you please 4______ something else?” I asked her when she was dressing for Parents’ Day in tight-fitting pants and a bright pink sweater, with a Mexican cape.
“What’s wrong with my outfit?”
What wasn’t wrong with it!
“It’s just that I wish it would be something more plain,” I said sheepishly, “something that people won’t 5______ at.”
She looked at me angrily and drew herself 6______ to her full height of five feet ten inches.
“Are you 7______ of your own mother? Because if you are, Isadora, I feel 8______ for you. I really do.”
2. A) stand не вынесу; Б) approve; В) agree; Г) vote
8. A) regretful; feeling or showing sadness or disappointment because of something that has happened or something that you have done or not doneБ) sorry; В) guilty; Г) unhappy
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Searching for a New Programme
A healthy lifestyle can vastly improve your well-being. This is a lifestyle designed for those who wish to feel more certain about their health and more in control of what the present and future will bring them in that important 1______ of existence. None of us wants to be sick. None of us enjoys the idea that we may become a medical statistic. This is a simple, easy-to-follow health-style that can enable you to get cards very much in your 2______. The doctors were fortunate enough to come into 3______ with a field of study that brought them to healing заживать, излечивать and well-being that they so desperately needed. They personally have 4______ thousands of people improve their health using only a small part of information. Many more people begin to improve their health now. Embracing the most current information from many health-related fields, the programme of healthy lifestyle gives you an understanding of the impact of exercise, breathing, sunshine, sleep and much more on your health. In order for this programme to work for you, you have to be willing to apply at least some part of it. Some change will be 5______. And as you make those first modest changes, you will get positive results that encourage you to do more. Changing is fun. And if you realize that your new healthy lifestyle 6______ the making of new habits, not the 7______ of old ones, you will feel very positive about what the future holds for you.
1. А) sector one of the parts that an area is divided into Б) regiona particular area in a country or the world В) area a part of a subject or activity) territory
2. А) benefit Б) advantage В) privilege ADVANTAGEилиOPPORTUNITY честь, удовольствие I had the privilege of meeting the Queen.Г) favour в чью-либо пользу
3. А) touch Б) contact В) view Г) connection
4. А) confessed признаваться и исповедоваться Б) witnessed быть свидетелем В) determined устанавливать определять Г) recognized осознавать и признавать
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To the North of London
The Aldenham Country Park is a large and pleasant area easily reached if you are travelling north out of London. It is worth visiting if you want a quick breath of fresh air and a reasonably attractive place for a brief picnic. The most important point of the park is Aldenham Reservoir. It was built in 1796 to 1______ the water level in the river 2______ by the newly constructed Grand Union Canal, and more recently has been used as a reserve public water supply. Not far from there lies the busy town of Watford which can be recommended for a brief visit. And in any 3______ much more interesting stretches of the canal are met further north. And if you make your way through the town you can visit the Watford Museum in the High Street which has materials on printing and paper-making on 4______. The picture gallery has changing exhibitions of works by artists who lived or painted in the area. Another attraction of the neighbourhood is a fascinating complex of Roman buildings, the 5______ of a great city, once the third largest centre of Roman Britain. The private houses were impressive, many of them furnished with mosaic floors. The beauty of the mosaics can hardly be described on paper, and it is best 6______ by standing and looking for a while. The other principal Roman site to be visited is a long stretch of the city wall which 7______ back to the 3 rd century.
1. А) remain Б) support В) hold Г) maintain to make a situation or activity continue in the same way поддерживать, сохранять
3. А) condition Б) situation В) circumstance Г) case
4. А) presentation Б) display на показВ) demonstration Г) exhibition
5. А) remains руины, развалины Б) wastes мусор В) wreckage обломки (машины, самолета и т.д.) Г) reminderssomething that makes you remember something elseнапоминание
6. А) praised хвалить Б) approved утверждать В) appreciated ценитьГ) regardedto look carefully at someone or somethingразглядывать
7. А) dates Б) returns В) follows Г) comes
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