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Who is the author of the plugin you installed , I want to make sure we picked the same
 

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FYI, I'm not a moron and know what I was witnessing. Just tried both of those sites and nothing. The plugin literally shows, "Nothing Found", but Newegg is also now showing the same and no unusual CPU usage.

I'll bet any amount of money they got caught by more than one watchful person and yanked it down. Wouldn't be surprising at all.

Possible, or, maybe, Newegg found something injected in an ad from one of their advertisers and removed it... could be a hundred different things.
I have even hit on crap at some legit sites and go back and it is gone/removed/etc. So, it is what it is at that moment. I don't doubt you and what was.

So, no one is offended/upset... I was grinning :D 'cause I tested TPU.
 

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So, no one is offended/upset... I was grinning :D 'cause I tested TPU.
If W1zzard was going to do something like this, he'd make it public so that everyone would be aware.

A youtube link on a reply is enough to trigger the addon, such as in this case:

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/...-crypto-miner-cpu-mining.241992/#post-3809678
OOOooo, that's interesting! It did. This just got real. Maybe the new guy is on to something after all. Plot thickens..

EDIT; although it still wouldn't explain the CPU usage witnessed.. I think 95Viper may have been on to something.
 

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If W1zzard was going to do something like this, he'd make it public so that everyone would be aware.


OOOooo, that's interesting! It did. This just got real. Maybe the new guy is on to something after all. Plot thickens..

EDIT; although it still wouldn't explain the CPU usage witnessed.. I think 95Viper may have been on to something.

LOL: now this topic also triggers the addon.

EDIT

Disregard: false alarm.

Closed FF and re-opened and it's gone.
 

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That is very possible. Thing is, I have uBlock Origin installed.. Who knows though.
I used the same one

Ligicwise, you will see the false positive all time. Since it used keyword filtering for the url, moneta matched monetate.com , unless you block monetate or newegg discard it
 
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I'll bet any amount of money they got caught by more than one watchful person and yanked it down. Wouldn't be surprising at all.

I mean newegg does do third party ads as mentioned. I really bet you are correct and it got pulled if what you saw was on anything other than an atom netbook or similar.

Given the somewhat iffy activities Newegg has been involved in, it would not be surprising at all to find out they were testing something new to see if anyone would notice.

I mean, it's already iffy as can be IMO to be running poorly vetted third party ads on a commercial site that is supposed to be protecting your private data.

Personally the whole "flash update" debacle earlier this year clued me into how bad they manage this. Whether or not they are intentionally mining (and I don't care honestly) they are already on my short "naughty list."
 

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Just some info... a PublicWWW search turns up this:
jsscript.png


Edit: However, I don't believe that is what he picked up on, as, Monetate.net seems to be legit.
Monetate At CrunchBase info
They are AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US
And, their domains are:

My opinion... I think it was something embedded in a third party ad/link.
 
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the question is: has anyone told newegg or contacted them about this, if this is thru 3rd party, they would want to know.
 
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I installed the mining blocker extension in Chrome and it did say "Mining scheme found" when I opened the newegg page. But task manager showed spu usage 1-3%. Then I saw that the blocker said Mining scheme found/Stopped so I disabled the mining blocker extension and my cpu usage spiked for a second and went back to 1-3% so it seems to be a false positive. I also have ublock orgin installed, so it's possible if it's a mining ad it got disabled by ublock.
 

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I stopped using Newegg when I found out they were treating their customers like Pokemon and giving all their info to the IRS. GOTTA CATCH EM ALL!
 
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I also get a mining warning on chrome at newegg.. was going to tell the customer support but I was 75th in line for the chat and they provided no email.

Shame, I used to buy all my computer stuff there. Amazon it is.
 

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I also get a mining warning on chrome at newegg.. was going to tell the customer support but I was 75th in line for the chat and they provided no email.

Shame, I used to buy all my computer stuff there. Amazon it is.
I fully agree man. I started going to Amazon a few months back. They charge taxes but at least they were up front about it. If I know going in thats the case I dont mind. It was the retro tax BS Newegg pulled. Sadly its an end of an era for me. No more Newegg and I took my kids to the closing of the Toys R Us in my area. Sad days.
 

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Just some info... a PublicWWW search turns up this:
View attachment 103168

Edit: However, I don't believe that is what he picked up on, as, Monetate.net seems to be legit.
Monetate At CrunchBase info
They are AKAMAI-AS - Akamai Technologies, Inc., US
And, their domains are:


My opinion... I think it was something embedded in a third party ad/link.

My point is that i checked all those plugins in both Chrome/Firefox. all of them did a simple URL filter to check whehter it contains Miner or not.

if it contains, and you click to stop, they just remove the url, or redirect to somewhere else. For Newegg's case, monetate.com is the reason why plugin picked it up.

I posted a topic about the blocker here, (those two popular one on chrome and firefox )

https://www.techpowerup.com/forums/threads/miner-blocker.245524/

this is the logic for the Miner blocker developed by Cap1000

searchListURLS.forEach(function (searchFor){
if (no.matches('script') && no.src.toUpperCase().includes(searchFor.toUpperCase())) {
no.src = ""; //LOGIC to stop the minner.
scriptsRemove++;
console.log("Found mining: "+ searchFor);
 
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I fully agree man. I started going to Amazon a few months back. They charge taxes but at least they were up front about it. If I know going in thats the case I dont mind. It was the retro tax BS Newegg pulled. Sadly its an end of an era for me. No more Newegg and I took my kids to the closing of the Toys R Us in my area. Sad days.

I'm in agreement, times be changing.

I'll still use newegg, but I use crypto when I do (no fraud chance after the fact) and only if there is some kind of a hell of a deal (90% of the time, this isn't the case).

I don't trust them at all, honestly.
 

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I think this possibility is just another reason to stop using them. I abhor Amazon’s organization of computer parts compared to Newegg, but in the last month I have literally paid 10 to 20 dollars less on items at Amazon than Newegg (when I can actually locate the actual item in their jumbled website).
 
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Just sent them a message on facebook as it seems to be the only way to get ahold of anyone. Will see what they say.

Depending on the response, this needs to be a bigger deal.
 
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I think your a little quick to judge. You know there is a rep here
I also sent them an email.
Did you check the reviews on the add on you're using?
Newegg_Service

Last time I emailed them about a problem on there site they sent me free stuff
 
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I think your a little quick to judge. You know there is a rep here
I also sent them an email.
Did you check the reviews on the add on you're using?
Newegg_Service

Last time I emailed them about a problem on there site they sent me free stuff

That rep hasn't been active in nearly a year, I've tried contacting them regarding it on multiple platforms and yet to receive a response.

Update

Got a response, they requested a link to this thread

"Thank you so much for providing that for me, Bob! I have forwarded this information to Management and will get it reviewed immediately. "

Spoiler - my name is bob
 
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The reason I asked was Newegg intermittently shows a mining program. Almost as if it triggers a piece of code that tries to run X more times at Y hours distant before no more attempts are made. Tweaktown was showing very similar behavior.

I have no idea how accurate the parameters this extension uses are at detecting only cpu mining. Not casting aspersions in any direction. Just making observations and asking if they align with others.
 

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Or your internet over wifi.

Ethernet here, unlimited so we are told, but the Electricity cost has risen this month.

Anyway It's prolly a poor underpaid kid in Newegg's EYE-TEE dept running a script.
That's the last time they get my custom.
 
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