How to Stop Websites Using Your CPU to Mine Cryptocurrency

 
 
 
 
How to Stop Websites Using Your CPU to Mine Cryptocurrency
 

As if visiting shady torrent websites wasn’t harmful enough before, there’s a new problem that now users have to deal with while visiting such websites. A user on Reddit has discovered that while visiting one of the most popular torrent websites, the PirateBay, his CPU was being used for mining the digital cryptocurrency “Monero”. For those who don’t know, Monero is another popular cryptocurrency, just like Bitcoin. PirateBay was using a simple JavaScript code which triggers a cryptocu...

 


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