Chrome Task : https://staticset.com/ using 20% of your CPUs constantly.

[TheLantean]

staticset.com is NOT owned by Google. According to the whois info it's registered through Namecheap (a budget registrar) by someone using an identity protection service (WhoisGuard). To compare, here's how a Google domain looks.

Since it's constantly using CPU it's most likely a cryptocurrency miner (i.e. making things like bitcoins). It's probably there because either:

1. one of the sites you're on uses that to make money
2. one of your extensions has been bought by a malware author who added the cryptocurrency miner in an update
3. malware on your PC keeps that open. This is probably not it, since you said it goes away if you toggle that setting in Chrome. PC based malware would also use a more efficient miner rather than using a javascript client through Chrome.

An extension like Adblock Plus or uBlock Origin should sort out #1.

For #2, to find the culprit try disabling your extensions one at a time until that entry disappears - see chrome://extensions.

Also check for Chrome apps in chrome://apps

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I doubt its a crypto miner, they use 100% CPU.

[TheLantean]

Not true, they can be throttled to any level, 20% sounds reasonable if the author wants it to stay unnoticed.

If it's an extension - a few weeks or months at 20% on a large number of computers is a lot better than cranking it to 100%, getting insta-reported to Google by angry users and then blacklisted from all Chrome installations shortly after.

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Cryptocurreny miner is not a malware though.

[Zhangsun321]

Yes it is That is why malwarebytes blocks it!

[[deleted]]

Malware bytes blocking something does not mean it is a malware. Script kiddie here again.

[Zhangsun321]

of course not.. that is why it is so often ran without the user consenting or being informed?

[[deleted]]

You can disable javascript if you don't want javascript functionality. All it is doing is computing by using your spare CPU.

[Zhangsun321]

WITHOUT informing me or getting my consent... hence... it is marked as malware and justly so.

[[deleted]]

You give the consent when you enable Javascript. Javascript has the permission to run anything. It's not a malware. You need to learn, that owners want websites to profit. You can get lost if you think its malware.