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This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.
How did you figure out it was running? How did you confirm? Teach me your methods
Please
It was pretty easy to spot in
htop
since it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word "Monero" multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway hahaWas it still through WINE? I'd feel bad for the miner as well as it likely couldn't have done the MSR mod so low hashrate lol.
Feeling bad that a scammer couldn't scam hard enough is hilarious. Only in a Linux forum.
Tbf, if you get an OOTB distro infected, that is most definitely user error