How to find a web-miner in Chrome

To find out which site or expanding uses your computer for extraction cryptocurrency, use Google's built-in tool.

Mining cryptocurrency - resource-intensive process. You will see this, when will go to a website with an embedded web-miner. The computer will start to slow down or restart due to CPU overheating.

Intuition and the Windows Task Manager suggest that mining is through Chrome. However, you can not figure out where it is Miner: On site or browser extensions.

How to calculate the web miner

Open your browser and go to the Task Manager. To do this, press Shift + Esc, or open it via the menu: click on the three dots in the upper right corner, select the "Advanced Tools» → «Task Manager."

For a visual example, I used the test site from the staff portal Badpackets, which incorporates a Web-miner CoinHive.

Task Manager shows you all processes, open tabs and extensions, as well as the level of memory consumption and CPU load. Define Web Miner is easy - look at the CPU usage. Once you figure out which site Main, close it. To do this, select the tab and click "End Process."

Miners hide not only on the sites. Browser extensions can also secretly produce cryptocurrency.

Find your infested extension can be downloaded on the CPU. Double click on the file name extension, delete it, and then restart the browser.

It so happens that the miner is loaded into iframe. In this case, Windows Task Manager does not show any expansion infected. Click on to find out subframe in the list of processes that load CPU. This opens the control menu and the appropriate extension will be allocated. Remove it and restart your browser.

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