How to intercept cryptocurrency mining scripts

When visiting certain movie or download sites, you might suddenly notice your computer fan spinning at full speed and the system lagging. This is caused by invisible cryptojacking scripts hijacking your CPU.

Advanced layer against cryptojacking scripts

Mining scripts (such as Coinhive and its derivatives) are injected into the background of your browser tab. AdBlock Network stops them immediately. The software performs asynchronous read-only requests to multiple independent endpoints to update the firewall, allowing the Advanced layer to block malicious mining scripts before they consume your system resources.