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Offline andrecas

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #75 on: October 26, 2017, 05:14:31 PM »
Subject threat warning first surfaced more than 2 weeks ago. Since I am no

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #76 on: October 26, 2017, 05:44:50 PM »
Just been on for half an hour, no high CPU running and no reports from Norton they have removed "coin miner" threat every 10 seconds. First time of normal running for a while, maybe...
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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #77 on: October 26, 2017, 06:13:15 PM »
Im using old XP and Avast is my Anti Virus.

I use Firefox to browse this site.

Never a problem of any kind ever.

Maybe I'm just lucky.

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #78 on: October 27, 2017, 01:25:53 PM »
Has something been done to solve this? I've just tried the site and for the first time in over a week, I'm not being bombarded with coin-hive warnings???? Anyone else finding the same???

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #79 on: October 27, 2017, 02:10:09 PM »
Trouble seems to be over.
Since 2 days no more warnings on my computer.

Many thanks Hendrik and team to solve the problem

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #80 on: October 27, 2017, 04:17:02 PM »
Well done to whomever fixed the Coinhive bug, thanks. :D :D :D

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #81 on: October 27, 2017, 05:18:48 PM »
And a thank you from myself as well to whoever fixed the problem.

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #82 on: October 27, 2017, 06:09:25 PM »
Up until this morning was reviewing forum info via mobile. Logged onto site today using PC and the Malware/Norton pop up screens have ceased. From what I am reading in forum it appears the "coin" threat has been removed. Thank you to Webmasters/IT group for their role in dealing with this matter.

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #83 on: October 27, 2017, 09:45:06 PM »
Indeed there is some progress which is very good.
Cpu usage is no longer jumping to 98/100%, though it is still higher then when I disable JavaScript.
Don't know if that has something to do advertisements.
Cheers,
Roy

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #84 on: October 28, 2017, 07:30:07 AM »
Thank you to all involved in clearing the bitcoin problem,

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Re: Coinhive threat warning
« Reply #85 on: November 02, 2017, 05:04:49 PM »
Hi all,

We have had many things to deal with the last month. It finally seems we start to have an OK status again.

We have been moving the servers, and at the same time the mining problem and mobile redirects have appeared in multiple ways. Status right now is that we will have no more downtime due to the server move.

The coinhive and mobile redirects have been removed completely from the site. It's clear that none of these have been "real" viruses, so your computers as a visitors should not be affected. As soon as you close the web browser or browser tab - it should all be gone.

Thank you to all of you that have been reporting messages from browsers and warning messages from anti-malware software etc. It's a big help, especially since some of these things only appears once per 24 hours, and also only in specific countries.

Regards,
Henrik

 

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