Am I being Mined?

Jigglymuff · Jan 9, 2019

So when my computer goes idle I can hear what I believe to be the hard drive working. Normally if it's idle I should just hear nothing but my fans. I have a feeling it could possibly be a 3rd party using my resources to mine. When I click my mouse the noises will stop and it goes back to just being able to hear my fans. If I wait a few minutes I hear the hard drives again then as soon as I click silence. Am I just being paranoid or what? How can I check and any suggestions? I also ran a scan with Malwarebytes and got rid of a few files but still it persists.

SkyNetRising · Jan 9, 2019

Windows has number of services, that work in background and can cause disk usage:

Search Indexer service;
Windows Defragmenter;
Windows Defender;
Windows Updates.

You can monitor Disk usage with Task Manager and Resource Monitor.
Mining processes would utilize your GPU. You can monitor GPU usage with Task Manager and MSI Afterburner.

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