Windows 10: Possible Bitcoin Miner

Discus and support Possible Bitcoin Miner in AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security to solve the problem; 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.... Discussion in 'AntiVirus, Firewalls and System Security' started by Advelisent, Aug 19, 2020.

  1. ADVELISENT
    Advelisent Win User

    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.


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    :)
     
    Advelisent, Aug 19, 2020
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  2. LAURIJAN
    Laurijan Win User

    About Bitcoin miners

    Hi!

    I am gonna buy a bitcoin miner probably the Antminer S1 180GH/s but first want to ask if there are cheap alternatives or suggestions on which to buy.

    Lauri
     
    Laurijan, Aug 19, 2020
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  3. JSSSSSSSSS
    Jsssssssss Win User
    Bitcoin Virus

    You should use your favorite search engine and read some of the many articles out there...

    You might want to start by reading some of these suggestions:

     
    Jsssssssss, Aug 19, 2020
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  4. ANDRETEN
    AndreTen Win User

    Possible Bitcoin Miner

    Protecting yourself from In-Browser Miners

    Thanks for pointing this out Cliff S. My wife was victim of one coin miner. And it wasn't restricted on the site viewing, but started with browser.


    Special extensions that prevents coin mining are available for almost all of the browsers (Chrome, FF) out there. Also usual blocking extensions can be updated with coin mining lists like you mentioned for hosts file.

    This is part of the list, if you go to FF extensions site and type coin in search:
     
    AndreTen, Aug 19, 2020
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