I ran a netstat on my machine and found a certain connection with a foreign address...
pool-108-51-140-90:14905
Does anyone know what is this ? Is it a mining pool where I am connected ?
Check your CPU usage, it should be really high like 60% and above if someone is mining on your computer..
Who would even still try and mine bitcoins with others CPU's.
People who have an automated script to go an infect multiple machines. They don't need to manually control your machine, they can controls herds of machines - BOTNET.
Although botnets could probably make more money doing something other than mining.