My Avast runs full system scans every week, so this just recently became an issue this week. So if something is mining in the background, I can't tell at all. My CPU is running below 30%, my RAM is generally below 5GB (installed 16GB), and my network hasn't had any processes sending out/receiving large amount of data. I've been monitoring my CPU usage, Memory, and Network and I haven't seen a single odd process running. I researched the file path and cryptonight and found out that cryptonight is/can be malicious code that can run in the background of someone's computer to mine cryptocurrency. I want to avoid wiping the laptop and re-installing everything, so that is why I am here. Therefore the virus is re-creating the file every restart of the laptop. So I decided to let Avast put it in the virus chest, restarted the laptop, and again the file was in the same location again. The file reappeared in the same location. I found nothing, until I restarted my macbook pro today. So, after deleting the file I did several more full system scans to check to see if there were any more files. The file's location is : /private/var/db/uuidtext/7B/BC8EE8D09234D99DD8B85A99E46C64Īvast categorizes the infection file as : JS:Cryptonight Yesterday I ran a full system scan using my Avast antivirus software and it found a infection file.
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