Post screenshot of Task Manager Details tab sorted in descending order of CPU usage and of all installed programs. This is a new laptop right? How did it got infected? Do you remember installing anything using older installer files from local storage?
Check this post of mine, this is an old issue which was discussed quite extensively here:
Run TeamViewer in Administrator mode and PM me your ID and password. I'll check it remotely.
I think you & I posted at same time so may be you missed my post, I did all that(remote checking) & then only reached that conclusion. Do try the tests I did to see if you get a different result.
Yes, I checked his laptop and couldn't find any concrete evidence.
You won't find anything in his laptop, those coinhive entries are being loaded from website cache of his isp in my opinion in which case no AV will help other than blocking it/notifying about it.
Any ISP won't be using any usual AV that typical user use & his ISP will certainly not going to disclose their infrastructure details to a customer.
Resetting the router won't do anything. Its the server website which is hacked with Coinhive.
Firefox has a tool built in to block said Miners Let Firefox help you block cryptominers from your computer – The Firefox Frontier
Ever since I started using Brave, I never want to go back to old Chrome.
Next gen Edge is called Chromium right
Nope. Chromium is an open source browser and Google Chrome is based on it, same as next gen Edge.
what makes brave browser better ?
