For the last day or two, I’ve been seeing a banner at the top of some webpages (notably FR & 8ch, but also a few others) saying something like “This page is using considerable energy. Closing it may improve the performance of your Mac”.
Something sinister going on? Like somebody scraping info from my computer? Not too surprising on 8ch. If it were NOT on FR, I might think that it could be something less nefarious, like a video loading or a large image loading or a benign script running. But FR is AFAIK a super simple page to serve and shouldn’t be consuming resources.
can you see it if you go into incognito on chrome?
can you see it if you go into incognito on chrome?
Search for “PCDr” virus - I had to extract recently (Malwarebytes didn’t recognize) and it’s called the “FBI Virus” (seriously) - I’m sure I got it from probing “Q” rabbit holes and going out into the WWW so others may have “discovered” similar things. It chewed up on all kinds of resources - search for “*pcdr*” on your hard drive and if found act accordingly ;)