I usually use Edge on Win10 on an Intel dual core i5-7200U, and ET shows an average of 1-2% while idle, and a spike to 15% or so when clicking forums. This seems totally normal to me. This site is lightweight.
Thanks for all of the tips guys. I once was a fervent user of Firefox, but it kept hanging up when over 20 tabs were opened. When did they finally clean it up ?
I use Emsisoft's antivirus software....and it does indeed consume some CPU. However, it's been the best one I've seen. I'll bet they have anticrypto mining detection built in. The above test proved negative on my machine.
Funny you should say that... I ran the test from that link as well, and although the test proved negative for me, my AVAST picked up a threat during the scan: coinhive.min was infected with BV:Miner-T [Trj] Possibly a false positive when the popup arose, but noteworthy nonetheless.
Run 10 different anti virus programs and you will have 10 different results. Not a single program detects everything.
Actually my problem now has been diagnosed to a USB port driver issue.....especially for the Logitech mouse I use. Logitech has been totally worthless in resolving it. They used to be a great company. I must remove and then re-insert the USB wireless transmitter twice daily. Otherwise, the mouse becomes so slow as to be useless.