Quote from: QuantumQrack on November 05, 2015, 03:42:00 AM

Quote from: americanpegasus on November 05, 2015, 02:35:41 AM

I'm not gonna lie guys; ever since I got loudly and publicly involved in cryptocurrency a year ago, there's been no end to the digital fuckery I have experienced and suspected on my personal machines.

I have a Windows laptop for internet browsing and games (no cryptocurrency activity on this machine), and even after a fresh install, within weeks it will inexplicably begin to stutter and pause before saving any file. I run pretty solid Malware Bytes scans, MSE instances and a Firefox browser with ad-block and Noscript; I'm not a wizard, but I'm not a dummy. There is no reason why a top-of-the-line computer that was reformatted a month ago should be stuttering randomly and lagging when doing things as simple as saving a picture off the internet.

As well, my cell phone began about November of last year to pause randomly to lose (possibly hijack) the internet connection. It shows pinging or 'upload' status in the network icon during these moments. Attempts to use downloaded apps to figure out what IP addresses it's connecting to during these times have only resulted in gibberish or proxies. This behavior persists no matter how many times I 'reformat' my phone.

This is kind of shit is increasingly pissing me off - I have come to accept that if I become prominent in crypto I will likely end up getting monitored pretty hard despite being open and honest about my actions, but whatever backdoor nonsense is happening is actually affecting the performance of my computer which is ridiculous. Perhaps I'm being paranoid, but also perhaps not.

If you are reading this, your shit is weak and gives off tell tale signs of a system being compromised - get it together.

Angry

Software-wise, I have about the same setup as you. A few years ago I built a new computer. This time, though, I ditched the Micron branded memory (I was having all sorts of problems with it) and went with G.Skill. Also installed a 2nd gen SSD from Intel. So for about 6 years now, this PC runs like brand new. No issues really. Rock solid. So, like GingerAle has stated, you RAM may be bad. Also, if you don't use an SSD as your primary OS drive, this is one of the best upgrades you can make.

Also, to stay on topic, I have noticed that XMR/USD is quite stable. And on another tangent, I wonder if its really a good idea to base XMR speculation on USD rather than BTC.

+1. I have a 4 year old i7 desktop still running the same install of Windows 7. SSD boot drive, 8GB of crucial memory, Radeon 7970 (mined my first BTC on that puppy). It's not the NSA or Microsoft - it's either a hardware problem or a driver issue.

And yeah, XMR/USD is very stable and that can't all be due to mining since that's less than half of a low day of trading in volume.