CPU miner ALERT !

in #bitcoin7 years ago (edited)

Hello everyone.Recently i opened the task manager and i found out i had spike in CPU consumtion and obviously somebody was mining through my PC.In that particular case it was Trojan.BitCoinMiner.The Trojan.BitCoinMiner is a nasty computer infection that silently runs on your computer while using your CPU resources to mine for digital currencies. As the value of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin rise/well at least not these couple of months :) / more and more ppl want to use your computer resources. Below you can see the usual simptoms that someone is probably using your PC resourses to mine crypto.

You will see a processes running in task manager that are using over 50% of the CPU
You will see processes in task manager that have extension like "miner"
You will also noticed slow performance overall.

There are many ways to remove those threats but in my case i called a technician which was also a friend of mine and now everything is working fine.The point is stay away from unknown sites and be careful what are you downloading.

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