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Offline Richard Paton

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Coinhive threat warning
« on: October 10, 2017, 05:27:10 PM »
Has anybody else been getting an anti virus alert for coinhive.com on this site when you click on it?

The warning beeps saying virus detected only happen on this site an no other.
« Last Edit: October 10, 2017, 07:02:04 PM by Richard Paton »

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #1 on: October 10, 2017, 06:35:40 PM »
Just today I've been getting pop up screens from Malwarebytes (to which I subscribe to) indicating this "coinhive" site is being blocked. It makes me wonder (again) when this site will update (or implement) security features similar to other sites (such as marine Traffic), etc.

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #2 on: October 10, 2017, 06:48:39 PM »
Yes I'm getting the same. Fortunately by anti-virus software is blocking it.

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #3 on: October 10, 2017, 06:50:34 PM »
Glad to hear it's not just me then, having googled it it seems coinhive is a way for a website to generate revenue..

Coinhive is a cryptocurrency miner written in Javascript, which sends any coins mined by the browser to the owner of the web site.

Offline CedricH

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #4 on: October 10, 2017, 08:23:52 PM »
I did notice very high CPU usage on this page, despite not seeing the ads with an adblocker.
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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #5 on: October 10, 2017, 09:02:34 PM »
Yes Cedric.
That's what it does, apparently, though I don't pretend to understand it.
However this seems to touch on it - and in particular on the issue around it being set to maximise CPU usage:
https://www.reddit.com/r/beermoney/comments/751c8m/beware_the_coinhivecom_jsminerc/

I'm waiting for Cody to come back to me on this.
(Cedric, I am working offsite on the category question and will email you)

Offline Cody Williams

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #6 on: October 11, 2017, 05:47:54 AM »
Hi Everyone,

Remember when we had issues with the site being rerouted to ad-websites on some mobile devices a while back? That was caused by Tizermedias which was placed into our site

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #7 on: October 11, 2017, 08:08:58 AM »
Thanks for the update Cody and David. I hope the issue gets resolved soon, CPU usage is so high that I can hardly scroll through pages after a while.

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Offline Phil English

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #8 on: October 11, 2017, 08:25:45 AM »
I've also noticed that shipspotting has been making by CPU run at 100%. Consequently, everything else on my PC runs slower than it should. Nothing else is doing it, as soon as it close ss.com, my CPU goes down to <10%.

Brgds
Phil
« Last Edit: October 11, 2017, 08:27:23 AM by Phil English »

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #9 on: October 11, 2017, 08:59:47 AM »
There are Coin Hive extensions that you can download for Chrome, Firefox, Opera etc. they not only stop it loading but clean your browser. Just "Google" .. eg search for Coin Hive blocker +Chrome etc.  Note the search works best if Coin and Hive are separated or as Coin-Hive.
see http://cryptomining-blog.com/tag/no-coin-browser-extension/ for extra info if required.

Once its loaded there will be an icon in your browser bar ... On and Off so make sure you turn it on.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2017, 09:04:41 AM by ChasB46 »

Offline Robert J Smith

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #10 on: October 11, 2017, 12:16:46 PM »
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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #11 on: October 11, 2017, 12:43:11 PM »
Although its not a virus, its a trojan via Java script. Searching Norton, Bitdefender, Kaspersky websites they have the tools to detect and remove. Need to run the Norton etc. system scan, to find and remove.
It would appear that antivirus does not detect until its actually within your browser.  Its downloaded with free software and via adverts so reinfects looking for any Bitcoins you may have in your "piggy bank".Then steals them. An adblocker will stop it infecting but Shipspotting may not like you using ad blockers as its part of their revenue. As I use an ad blocker within my browsers I do not see any ads on the site so cannot comment if one or more of the ads are infected. I'm assuming Shipspotting still displays ads.
Clear your browser cache but that will not stop "reinfection". Need to prevent the source/ads reinfecting.
See https://malwaretips.com/blogs/remove-coin-hive-miner/ for remedies.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2017, 01:01:39 PM by ChasB46 »

Offline Allan RO

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #12 on: October 11, 2017, 01:52:30 PM »
my AVG free is picking it up and disposing.

Allan

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #13 on: October 11, 2017, 02:11:32 PM »
my AVG free is picking it up and disposing.

Allan

so does mine but it is quite irritating, and I have a feeling that even though it has been picked up it has not been disposed of as it still manages to slow my computer.
« Last Edit: October 11, 2017, 02:13:20 PM by pieter melissen »

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #14 on: October 11, 2017, 02:38:31 PM »
Unless its TOTALLY removed then it will keep coming back when you restart computer. Try https://www.malwarebytes.com/adwcleaner/ and run as Administrator ..its free. Stay away from ads on sites. You do not even have to look at the infected ads.

 

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