CPU Usage, cooling fans/Miner blockers
I have been noticing my computer fan running at insane rates all the time lately, so I just added a blocker. Checked my resource monitor again afterwards, my clock speed isn't constantly using Turbo every 5 seconds and my CPU graph is now flat, not filled with gigantic plateaus up to 100% or above for maximum frequency, and spiking to 30% cpu. The graphs for CPU and max freq are now completely flat. It legitimately pisses me off that I have to do this, I never agreed to mine for someone. My fan is probably running at 10% of what it has been consistently running at recently.
Get a blocker! There are a few out there, I can't imagine why I hadn't put one on this computer before now.
Posted Jan 31, 2018, 10:56 PM UTC
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What websites are you going to?
My friend found a script running on worldstarhiphop.com at one point. I think it was coinhive something.... He works as assistant network admin for a healthcare organziation.
these scripts are hidden everywhere. I have a chrome extension called j2team that blocks mining javas. Seems to do well for me. DYOD.
I just go to common websites, Reddit, Forbes, motley fool, CNN, Yahoo etc. occasionally porn. Nothing out of the ordinary.
https://www.coindesk.com/opera-browser-introduces-cryptocurrency-miner-protection-for-smartphones/
"Opera estimates that more than a billion devices worldwide are slowed down by website-based cryptocurrency miners that users do not realize are "cryptojacking" their browsers. On the other side of the browsing experience, the company believes there are now more than 3 million websites with embedded cryptocurrency miners.
Making it tricky for users to know there's a problem, there may be no visual cue that a miner is taking advantage of a web browser, according to the firm.
Cryptocurrency miners can overload smartphones' CPUs, forcing 100 percent usage and potentially causing a phone to overheat.
And the damage can sometimes be permanent. According to a ZDNet article, one trojan generated so much heat in a phone, its battery became swollen, permanently damaging the phone. While excessive ads were one reason for the heat generation, the main cause was that the phone's CPU was hijacked to mine for Monero.
The trojan was so effective, it "wrecked the phone within 48 hours," according to the article."
youtube had that problem and most sketchy/piracy/adult websites have miners