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Hi everyone,

 

did you notice that whole HopZone site recently started to run some kind of miner that eats up to 100 % CPU?

 

Shame!

 

EDIT:

 

If you don't want HopZone to steal your CPU, add this to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\hosts file

Edited by eressea
Posted (edited)

Now with that line in hosts file (see my first post) it doesn't eat more than 0.1 % CPU :)

 

BTW I won't mind them computing few hashes on my CPU, but it seems it would run forever!

Edited by eressea
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  On 11/28/2017 at 12:13 AM, GamePsychology said:

Is this even legal? To use other's pc as mine?

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There is probably a big flaw on whatever nation's laws.

 

If you don't like the concept, simply boycott the website.

Posted
  On 11/28/2017 at 12:13 AM, GamePsychology said:

Is this even legal? To use other's pc as mine?

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Hard to tell, as you, as a user, you accept their JavaScript :p

TPB did the same https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-cryptocurrency-miner-170916/

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