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    HEXUS competitions page currently tries to run a bitcoin miner on your computer

    Just had this flag up on my work Mac's anti-virus software. I know this is not directly gaming related but I wanted to give a PSA as I suspect many PCgamers frequent it particularly for the competitions like I do.

    Currently getting a bitcoin miner try and run in the background when using safari. I haven't tried other webbrowsers.

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    Re: HEXUS competitions page currently tries to run a bitcoin miner on your computer

    I'm surprised you haven't had a response here. Hexus staff are normally react to forum problemo
    I suggest you try malwarebytes. I don't know if we have a good solution to this for browsers - per hap ss?
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    Re: HEXUS competitions page currently tries to run a bitcoin miner on your computer

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    Re: HEXUS competitions page currently tries to run a bitcoin miner on your computer

    Hello hello

    Please can you link me to the exact page that you have the problem with?

    We cant replicate this. Was it the MAIN competition page or a specific competition? Cheers
    Last edited by Zak33; 24-10-2018 at 12:23 PM.

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