Windows 10: 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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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

 

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:

• How cryptocurrency mining works: Bitcoin vs. Monero - Malwarebytes Labs
• https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cyber...bitcoin-scams-aim-to-exploit-volatile-market/
• Cryptojackers Found on Starbucks WiFi Network, GitHub, Pirate Streaming Sites

• https://www.howtogeek.com/334018/how-to-block-cryptocurrency-miners-in-your-web-browser/
• Articles tagged with Cryptojacking
• Is cryptocurrency mining malware the new adware? | Emsisoft | Security Blog
• https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cyber...by-cryptomining-coming-to-a-browser-near-you/
• https://blog.malwarebytes.com/cyber...al-drive-by-cryptocurrency-mining-phenomenon/
• Best Practices for Safe Computing - Prevention of Malware Infection

 

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: