Hec Posted November 27, 2017 ID:1186937 Share Posted November 27, 2017 I hope everyone's having a nice day, anyways i downloaded the dolphin emulator which had an amazing reputation i was trying to dump my WII disks too get the game isos for the emulator but couldn't get rawdump to work browsing forums i saw this link for a website for a dumping program unfortunately i didn't look at the link too well because when i searched the website i clicked the wrong website link, it looked like a game ROM website which usually isn't a good sign but i was using no script so no scripts loaded but it initiated a connection to coinhive . com, now i'm pretty sure this is a bitcoin miner fortunately malwarebytes blocked the connection i scanned and found nothing but could i have a bitcoin miner stealthily using my system resources, please if anyone can help me out that would be appreciated i scanned with bitdefender free, zemana, mbam and adwcleaner Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted November 28, 2017 ID:1186984 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Hi Hec Read the article below. https://blog.malwarebytes.com/security-world/2017/10/why-is-malwarebytes-blocking-coinhive/ The website you got redirected to was most likely using CoinHive. Since Malwarebytes blocked the connection, and you didn't download anything from that website, you'll be fine. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hec Posted November 28, 2017 Author ID:1187191 Share Posted November 28, 2017 Tank you for the response Aura, appreciate it, i read the article and I think it’s pretty shady they are doing this without telling you first not to mention there’s not a whole lot stoping them from making this malicious Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted November 28, 2017 ID:1187202 Share Posted November 28, 2017 No problem Hec, you're welcome And you're right. Malwarebytes also predicts a rise in websites doing cryptomining in 2018. So this is far from being over, in fact, it's just the beginning. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aura Posted December 2, 2017 ID:1188245 Share Posted December 2, 2017 Glad we could help. :)If you need this topic reopened, please send a Private Message to any one of the moderating team members. Please include a link to this thread with your request. This applies only to the originator of this thread.Other members who need assistance please start your own topic in a new thread. Thanks! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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