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🌉 Mining at someone else's expense.


• Scammers can be so talented! And that's a fact. Do you know what mining viruses are? This is when, after visiting well-known sites, your processor and video card suddenly become 100% loaded, and the fans of the system unit are preparing to take off. At this point, you're not running a super-performing game or even rendering an 8K video. Your computer is simply eating up your electricity and resources in order to mine the cue ball. But not for you, but for the good guy who infected you with this virus.

• But if you are an experienced person, you won’t be fooled by the chaff. You use a virtual machine so as not to introduce nasty things to the host machine, and do not open suspicious emails and links. Don’t download unfamiliar files, for example. But even if you do everything beautifully, you are not protected from mining on your machine.

• It's all about mining using a browser. Yes, yes, now you can mine using anything, even with a mobile phone, even with a smart watch. And the browser is not the most exotic thing here. But, nevertheless, when you access some sites, your infrastructure is used through your browser. Of course, there will be no profit from one hamster, but from a crowd the profit will be noticeable.

• How to protect yourself? First, use secure browsers. Brave or LibreWolf/Mullvad will cover you from these troubles. Well, don’t disdain the antivirus in this case. Many of them have built-in protection against this type of risk. Well, or install extensions on your browser. What is there in the Chrome extension store? So that. Safety everyone!