Re: DashMiner.com - DASH & BTC multipool for AMD GPUs. Custom software. Extra profit

Quote from: dashminer on July 18, 2015, 01:13:09 AM

Quote from: stillontop on July 17, 2015, 09:49:16 PM

This mining software is recognized as malicious software by 21 / 55 scanners on virus total.
See yourself: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/db29e13a8e15292612247def55718eb05c836b646a5781033286544cf4720e0b/analysis/

What do you say, does it cointain a Trojan.Generic.14786865 or not?

Hi!

This is very interesting. I scanned the ZIP at VirusTotal before releasing it and there was just 2 detections:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/db29e13a8e15292612247def55718eb05c836b646a5781033286544cf4720e0b/analysis/1435226924/

3 weeks have passed, file has not changed (you can see it by the matching hash). But now there are 21 detections:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/db29e13a8e15292612247def55718eb05c836b646a5781033286544cf4720e0b/analysis/

The new detections are by some unknown anitvirus software and are unspecific. Well known software detects a bitcoin miner, and that is expected.

EXE was prepared on a special build machine, so having a virus there is very unlikely.
The miner is open source, so you can compile it from github yourself to be 100% sure.

Thanks

I think there are large corporations pushing for the flagging of Cryptocurrency miners as malware to deter the general public from getting in on the game. Most people are not going to want to take a chance if anything pops up. It's just like with BitTorrent clients.