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- Broken beyond repair but highly affable
I've had at least two instances where I've had high CPU activity, suspected mining, unplugged the Ethernet cable, reset the gateway and now I had it happening without even being online!
So I opened Task Manager and I found an instance of iexplore.exe (IE 11) with over 200 MB tied up and climbing. I ended that process and some sanity returned.
WHY would IE be open and eating up resources? I had just finished both AVG 2018 Free and full Malwarebytes scans with no problems reported.
Would a new miner type be doing it's work waiting for my computer to go online? Usually once you break the connection they lose your computer.
Or is this a fault in IE?
So I opened Task Manager and I found an instance of iexplore.exe (IE 11) with over 200 MB tied up and climbing. I ended that process and some sanity returned.
WHY would IE be open and eating up resources? I had just finished both AVG 2018 Free and full Malwarebytes scans with no problems reported.
Would a new miner type be doing it's work waiting for my computer to go online? Usually once you break the connection they lose your computer.
Or is this a fault in IE?