Question Cryptomining on my system

[Wetles89]

Since last night I thought my temps were running a bit to high on my system. I run the 7600x CPU and i am cooling it with a 280mm Corsair AIO. Idle my temps were running around 65-75, shooting as high as 80C. Now i knew the AMD series runs a bit hotter than and Intel CPU, but still. Then i thought maybe my paste were bad. My system is about 6 months now and i did manage to leave behind a great incriminating thumbprint on my cooling paste during install (googled it, and people said it was fine). Then, out of nowhere, my Bitdefender asks my if I want to enable anti-cryptomining on my system. I said yes, and my temps dropped like a stone. Now its running stable at 46c, wont move a mm.

Can this really be the explanation? Does people have experience with this?

 

[USAFRet]

Since last night I thought my temps were running a bit to high on my system. I run the 7600x CPU and i am cooling it with a 280mm Corsair AIO. Idle my temps were running around 65-75, shooting as high as 80C. Now i knew the AMD series runs a bit hotter than and Intel CPU, but still. Then i thought maybe my paste were bad. My system is about 6 months now and i did manage to leave behind a great incriminating thumbprint on my cooling paste during install (googled it, and people said it was fine). Then, out of nowhere, my Bitdefender asks my if I want to enable anti-cryptomining on my system. I said yes, and my temps dropped like a stone. Now its running stable at 46c, wont move a mm.

Can this really be the explanation? Does people have experience with this?

A lot of malware will run crypto in the background on your system. Any results are sent to <wherever>, while your systems performance is sucked up.

Yes, it can be that easy.

I recommend really looking around in your system, and see what might be running.