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Originally Posted by Robert Fischer
some confusion
what I'm saying is my power usage is crazy when doing basically nothing, but when I open 'task manager' (alt ctrl del , task mgr), and it uses LESS immediately,
again, as I said to Dave - it could be something else and not malware, but it could also be malware.
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now, I AGREE 100%
with the separate discussion of how these browsers use additional processes which is disgusting.
I'm going to give Brave Browser a look  |
And now I think it might be something else - like a hardware problem.
Sure, some running task is triggering it, but this is usually caused by something like overheating, bad fan (maybe a processor fan), etc.
Could your processor be over-clocked?
Note: This stuff is out of my wheelhouse. Just guessing
As for the 2nd part... What do you suppose a malware product gains by turning up your usage?
Asking a 2nd time:
OS?
RAM?
