How can I stop coinhive attack

Viruses & Threats
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Hello Manuel,

I understand the inconvenience.
May I know the version of AVG Antivirus free installed on your PC?

5

Hello Elisabeth,

I understand the inconvenience.
Please provide the screenshot of AVG threat detection regarding "coinhive"
To take a screenshot please follow the instructions mentioned in this link: http://avgread.me/1aZxsAV and attach the image to this post.
You can post the screenshot here in your topic. Click on 'Answer' & then click on the 'Image' [mountain symbol] & follow the instructions.

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Please help me! I need this help immediately! I keep getting a pop-up saying I'm being attacked by coinhive.min[1].js, and i have no clue what that is! The only option it's giving me is to quarantine it, but when i go to the Quarantine there's nothing there! I just tried shredding the files but the pop-up appeared again! How do i get rid of this!? User-added image

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I keep getting attacked by something called coinhive, which AVG Free is quarantining but it is attacking every few minutes. How can I stop this?

2

I personally am not having issues on this topic, but it looks like Coinhive is being run in advertisements that use Java Script (Banner ads, video ads on YouTube and others).  Being that ads are placed in a browser's temporary cache, and generally refresh every few minutes on most smaller sites (like the Fanfiction site Angie was using), this might explain why the problem keeps coming up so often.  Please note that a large portion of these coinhive hijack advertisements are using open-source code, and that info should help with deterring less experienced programmers.  All credit for this discovery goes to Arstechnica and Gizmodo.  Their more detailed articles at     Now even YouTube serves ads with CPU-draining cryptocurrency miners - Ars Technica     and      Hackers Hijacking CPUs to Mine Cryptocurrency Have Now Invaded YouTube Ads

19

Same problem on my PC.
I will uninstall AVG now and install something else.
This problem is anoying and it is very unprofessional to not provide a solution for several weeks.

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I personally am not having issues on this topic, but it looks like Coinhive is being run in advertisements that use Java Script (Banner ads, video ads on YouTube and others).  Being that ads are placed in a browser's temporary cache, and generally refresh every few minutes on most smaller sites (like the Fanfiction site Angie was using), this might explain why the problem keeps coming up so often.  Please note that a large portion of these coinhive hijack advertisements are using open-source code, and that info should help with deterring less experienced programmers.  All credit for this discovery goes to Arstechnica and Gizmodo.  Their more detailed articles at     Now even YouTube serves ads with CPU-draining cryptocurrency miners - Ars Technica     and      Hackers Hijacking CPUs to Mine Cryptocurrency Have Now Invaded YouTube Ads

15

Angie,

Thank you for providing me the information.
I've escalated the case to our Senior Team and they will get back to you as soon as possible, so I suggest you to check your email regularly.

17

Manuel,
Your answers are not deleted and we successfully received them. I would request you to contact our chat support team ( http://avgclick.me/AVGtechnical ) for further assistance with this issue.

10

Thanks a lot. I can see my answers now.
I will contact support next time I see the popup.
thanks,

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Hi,
My version is 17.9.3040. Please, let me know if you need anything else.
I am attahching a screenshot as well.
Thank you,
AVG version

3

Same here. during the last 3 days I keep getting the popup. I've been running the deep scan but it does not resolve the situation. The popup appears around 4 times per day.
Thank you,

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I'm getting it every few minutes… i thought shredding the files would work, but i just got the pop-up again after i did so…

6

Thorsten, as you can see from the screenshots shared by other customers, AVG will detect this malicious code and alert the user.

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You're welcome, Angie.

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Hi Angie,

I understand the situation.
I've sent you an email with further instructions to send us the diagnostics from your computer so that we can escalate the case to our Senior Team to analyze the AVG logs and provide you with a resolution for the issue. Please check your Inbox once.

Could you also tell me when exactly are you getting the Pop-Up?

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Please help me! I need this help immediately! I keep getting a pop-up saying I'm being attacked by coinhive.min[1].js, and i have no clue what that is! The only option it's giving me is to quarantine it, but when i go to the Quarantine there's nothing there! I just tried shredding the files but the pop-up appeared again! How do i get rid of this!? User-added image

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Manuel,
Your answers are not deleted and we successfully received them. I would request you to contact our chat support team ( http://avgclick.me/AVGtechnical ) for further assistance with this issue.

4

Hello Manuel,

I understand the inconvenience.
May I know the version of AVG Antivirus free installed on your PC?