I've noticed during the past few days / week, that when I visit several sites, my Disk (Task Manager on Windows) shoots up to just under 100%, and stays there until I close Chrome and "end task" for Chrome on Task Manager. (ie not enough to just close Chrome). After that, disk returns to 0 or close to, browsing is normal, until I visit some site (several) and I hear my computer ramping up again).<p>Any idea what's going on? I suspected sites might be using visitors machines to mine, because that's popped up on discussions a few times lately.
It seems like you've read of a trend, and are just guessing.<p>It would be more productive to investigate the source of sites that cause this behaviour than asking random strangers whether a number of random (unidentified) websites are mining. We can't guess, we don't know. Nobody knows how widespread this is - but I suspect not very widespread at all.