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Gaming performance was completely unaffected.Īt nighttime however, while I was away from the PC it'd ramp up to the 65-85% range.Įven more interesting, it hid from task manager in a very unique way.As soon as you open task manager with the virus active, the entire system hangs for about a half second, and spikes to 99% utilization during that brief moment, then drops to your normal resource utilization (>5% in my case). So I started monitoring more closely.ĭuring the daytime hours, resource utilization while performing regular tasks rarely went over 35-40%. I noticed at night the fans would sometimes kick on a bit louder. It avoided my detection by not being obvious. So, they were mining on my beautiful rig for a few weeks. If you're downloading a piece of software, and there hasn't been a new upload for it in years, and there's a brand new version suddenly at the top of the list, combined with the other indicators, it's pretty easy to spot. The dates and versions are another giveaway depending on what you're downloading. It was the most seeded, uploaded within the last 24 hours, uploader had an account >48hours old with several hundred torrents (all of which had the same file size), and VIP status. (Edit I'm thinking I installed this trash initially by accidentally opening and immediately closing the file when I moved it over to my media server)Īnyhow, I missed the signs I normally look at. Unfortunately, I didn't open it for a few weeks. I realized as soon as I went to play the file (.mkv format) and VLC opened up only to show me an unplayable black screen. I slipped up and downloaded/ran a fake video torrent.