Stub Mandrel Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 Yesterday I was checking the settings in Windows Defender before I gave my old computer to my dad. It turned out that it had found a 'crypto miner' exploit, that's one of those nasty programs that hogs system resources to 'mine' bitcoin or similar. The reason I post this here is that it appears to have been picked up when visiting a small astronomy sites - the sort people set up on a larger hosting platform. Unfortunately, the process of clearing it our deleted the name of the website, but it was 'astro-something'. Touchwood this is the only such problem I've picked up, but it shows the value of protection software. If I can find the name of the site, I will post it here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkAR Posted May 6, 2021 Share Posted May 6, 2021 There really is some obnoxious malarky hiding on the internet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nightspore Posted May 7, 2021 Share Posted May 7, 2021 Although Windows is basically as unsafe as unsafe can be, I'd check that it wasn't a false positive. This is another reason I only run Unix now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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