See if your PC is being pirated to mine Bitcoin or Altcoin

First it was The Pirate Bay, then Showtime was caught secretly using page visitor’s processing power to mine cryptocurrency as a form of alternative revenue.

First Check your CPU usage. If you have everything closed but CPU usage is still super high, then you may have a crypto mining malware problem.

Ad Blockers can help. Running an ad blocker can put a stop to this. Additionally, ad blocking software can also filter out known types of in-browser miners. One such mining script is called Coinhive, which isn’t necessarily malware.

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