04-27-2021, 09:38 AM
Posting here for more visibility - you may have a clever little Crypto-miner running
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><h1>SO FAR THREE PEOPLE HAVE MESSAGED ME SAYING MALWAREBYTES FOUND CRYPTOMINING MALWARE ON THEIR PC'S! JUST CHECK IT GUYS, IT'S FREE AND EASY.</h1> <p>Do any of these symptoms sound familiar? </p> <ul> <li>Low gaming or PC performance?</li> <li>Sluggish Windows performance? </li> <li>PC has stopped going to sleep when idle?<br/></li> <li>CPU temps are too hot?<br/></li> </ul> <p>If so, you may have some Cryptocurrency mining Malware on your PC. </p> <p>This happened to me a couple years ago, I'm very tech savvy and don't usually have PC problems. Anything that goes wrong hardware I can fix and on the rare occurrence I get a software problem a quick bit of Google-Fu is all I need to get back on track. However, this one stumped me. </p> <p>I noticed my PC wasn't sleeping any more. I'd leave it idle and when I came back hours later, it wasn't off. I usually set it to turn off after 30 minutes, but it would stay on, sometimes all night etc. I also noticed that my process was not running at it's Idle clockspeed (FYI, your processor runs slower when it's not doing anything to save power) and finally, I noticed using HWMonitor that my CPU temps should be at about 40c at idle, were instead about 60-70c! </p> <p>I looked through Task Manager to identify if there were any strange looking .exe's and after googling all the application names I did not immediately recognise, I thought to download MalwareBytes and run a scan. </p> <p>Straight away it identified I had a cryptocurrency miner on my PC, and this is the part that impresses me, it actually de-activated itself if I went into Task Manager, then re-activated itself when I left. <em>Clever girl.</em> </p> <p>Some quick googling told me it was a Monero Crypto miner malware. God knows how it got on my PC, probably a drive by from a dodgy Crypto newsfeed website. I don't make a habit of downloading and running strange programs nor opening emails I don't trust, so I'm a bit stumped how it got there, but it was running for weeks! Think of all that Monero I mined! The bastards. </p> <p>Anyway, MalwareBytes is free to download and use, it will probably pester you to buy it so there's no harm in downloading it, checking your PC and then uninstalling it.</p> <p>Hopefully this helps someone out.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TNGSystems"> /u/TNGSystems </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/myvaj3/posting_here_for_more_visibility_you_may_have_a/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/myvaj3/posting_here_for_more_visibility_you_may_have_a/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R
<!-- SC_OFF --><div class="md"><h1>SO FAR THREE PEOPLE HAVE MESSAGED ME SAYING MALWAREBYTES FOUND CRYPTOMINING MALWARE ON THEIR PC'S! JUST CHECK IT GUYS, IT'S FREE AND EASY.</h1> <p>Do any of these symptoms sound familiar? </p> <ul> <li>Low gaming or PC performance?</li> <li>Sluggish Windows performance? </li> <li>PC has stopped going to sleep when idle?<br/></li> <li>CPU temps are too hot?<br/></li> </ul> <p>If so, you may have some Cryptocurrency mining Malware on your PC. </p> <p>This happened to me a couple years ago, I'm very tech savvy and don't usually have PC problems. Anything that goes wrong hardware I can fix and on the rare occurrence I get a software problem a quick bit of Google-Fu is all I need to get back on track. However, this one stumped me. </p> <p>I noticed my PC wasn't sleeping any more. I'd leave it idle and when I came back hours later, it wasn't off. I usually set it to turn off after 30 minutes, but it would stay on, sometimes all night etc. I also noticed that my process was not running at it's Idle clockspeed (FYI, your processor runs slower when it's not doing anything to save power) and finally, I noticed using HWMonitor that my CPU temps should be at about 40c at idle, were instead about 60-70c! </p> <p>I looked through Task Manager to identify if there were any strange looking .exe's and after googling all the application names I did not immediately recognise, I thought to download MalwareBytes and run a scan. </p> <p>Straight away it identified I had a cryptocurrency miner on my PC, and this is the part that impresses me, it actually de-activated itself if I went into Task Manager, then re-activated itself when I left. <em>Clever girl.</em> </p> <p>Some quick googling told me it was a Monero Crypto miner malware. God knows how it got on my PC, probably a drive by from a dodgy Crypto newsfeed website. I don't make a habit of downloading and running strange programs nor opening emails I don't trust, so I'm a bit stumped how it got there, but it was running for weeks! Think of all that Monero I mined! The bastards. </p> <p>Anyway, MalwareBytes is free to download and use, it will probably pester you to buy it so there's no harm in downloading it, checking your PC and then uninstalling it.</p> <p>Hopefully this helps someone out.</p> </div><!-- SC_ON --> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/TNGSystems"> /u/TNGSystems </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/myvaj3/posting_here_for_more_visibility_you_may_have_a/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/myvaj3/posting_here_for_more_visibility_you_may_have_a/">[comments]</a></span>Kind Regards R