I stumbled upon a new genre of computer virus today. The client called in saying printing was slow on their terminal server. I logged onto their terminal server; noticed the whole machine was rather slow. Noticed in task manager that 100% of the CPU was consumed by an a program called "sysctrl32.exe" also noticed that there were four users logged in, each one had one instance of this program consuming 25%. Researching this program came up with almost no results. I then ran an Eset OnLine Virus scan, and it found a trojan. Turns out this is a virus that mines BitCoins for some cybercriminal! Brilliant! Kinda wish I had thought of it! :)
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