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The neighbor assist tag on WindowsForum.com covers community-driven troubleshooting scenarios where users help friends, family, or neighbors with Windows PC issues. A recurring theme involves identifying and removing browser-based crypto miners that cause system slowdowns, high CPU usage, and hidden processes like iexplore.exe. These threads often walk through task manager inspection, process termination, and security awareness. The tag reflects real-world, non-professional tech support situations focused on malware removal, performance fixes, and basic Windows security practices.
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Browser based Crypto Miner
Just got done helping a neighbor. Her mouse was spinning and the system was slow. Looked in task manager and saw an iexplore process which had been spawned via a script to run hidden. Basically it was mining crypto currency in the background. Resolving it was simply a matter of closing the...- Neemobeer
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- background processes browser crypto mining cryptocurrency hacking hidden process iexplore malware neighbor assist performance issues privacy resolution scripting security system health system slowdown task manager tech support threat awareness web scripts
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- Forum: Windows Security