[Mobhack]

As an experiment I stripped Chrome of all ad blockers and privacy guard extensions then opened up the shrapnel forums with the browser "nekkid".

On opening the task manager, no process was taking any inordinate amount of CPU, whether it was any of the several chrome services running or a.n. other. Active coin miners are supposed to eat CPU cycles - and nothing was doing so.

So my conclusion is that the "threat" was very low - none of Malwarebytes or Spybot Search and Destroy found anything "placed on" my PC either.

So I am perfectly happy to continue on the forums with Firefox with Privacy Badger and Ghostery as usual, and Ad Block Plus of course - otherwise many web pages cannot be seen for intrusive ads!. But then - those are the sort of things a sensible web user has added to their browser these days in any case. Nb - those extensions are available for Chrome as well.