Best Way to Uninstall Epic Scale Malware

What is Epic Scale?

Epic Scale, a Bitcoin Mining software uses computer’s idle time to do genomics research, protein folding, image rendering, crypt-currency mining, and much more. From revenue, majority of the profits given to charities like Watsi (life-changing surgeries), and Immunity Project (free HIV vaccine).

What is Bitcoin?

The crypt-currency offering users almost completely anonymous transactions online, the traditional-likely currency on black market. Read more about What is Bitcoin? and What is Bitcoin Network? from Wikipedia.

According to Epic Scale Official website regarding user privacy,

“We deeply respect your privacy and do not track any of your personal identifiable information. We never collect or sell your personal information. We solely use your unused CPU when your computer is not active.”

Computer Slow? Recently installed or updated uTorrent? Epic Scale, a Bitcoin Mining Software bundled with uTorrent client. When system idle, Epic Scale utilizes idle CPU resource for external purpose. You can seen it’s cpu usage in Task Manager. Is slowing down computers performance, you need to uninstall or remove epic scale from computer. Even you can opt-out install Epic Scale when installing uTorrent client by deselect in custom installation.

Even Epic Scale is a good ware, it may slow down your system performance. If Epic Scale installed on your computer without your knowledge, follow below Epic Scale removal steps.

Presently, Bitcoin Trojan on while around internet and infecting users computer and turns computers Into Bitcoin Mining Machines. Read McAfee article about Facebook Trojan Bitcoin Mining, how trojan turns computer into Bitcoin Mining Machine.

Even if didn’t install Epic Scale, looks for Bitcoin Trojan on your computer and remove it. As long as you not aware about Bitcoin Mining trojan eats up your computer resources and earn money for its malware author. The symptom of Bitcoin Miner Trojan in infected machine is system slowness even when computer on idle, means not running any software.

As of dated 2015, 10th march according to uTorrent forum, Epic Scale offer on hold.

Uninstall Epic Scale

To uninstall epic scale from Windows, follow the below standard Windows uninstall procedure;

Open the Control Panel, by press Win+R, type appwiz.cpl and press enter.
In Programs & Features, select Epic Scale, right click and choose Uninstall. Sometimes, you didn’t found epic scale in list may be installation bug error or it won’t installed on your system.
Follow the Epic Scale uninstall prompts.
If you didn’t find Epic Scale on programs and features? try remove epic scale by download & run epic scale removal tool.

Download Epic Scale removal tool, once downloaded from official Epic Scale website. Run UninstallEpicScale.exe and follow prompts to completely remove Epic Scale from Windows.

Note: Epic Scale removal tool detected as Risk ware by major anti-malware program. See Virus Total scan report of Epic Scale removal tool in this page.


Some of malware detection name of Epic Scale-

• Riskware/BitCoinMiner
• Win32/EpicScale.A
• Win32.Application.Agent.F9WKOV
• RiskTool.Win64.BitCoinMiner.rr
• Artemis!23D1B30C22A8
• Win32/Virus.RiskTool.e98
• TROJ_GEN.R0C1H07C715