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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: CCminer(SP-MOD) Modded NVIDIA Maxwell kernels.
by
joblo
on 30/03/2016, 18:58:48 UTC
@sp - I cannot download your open source miners because it says it has detected a threat and the software contains a malwaregen32?  Why does it find that?  Is it a compressed file?

Old news, many AVs do that with miners, whitelist it.

Sorry - I am a little paranoid after losing all of my coins in mid January.

how did you lose your coins???

virus

Yes a virus that was attached to a new miner listed on Cryptomining Blog.  It had a trojan with keylogger built in.  Unfortunately I wasn't running AV or anti keylogger at the time (I know stupid of me) and got wiped out.  So like I said.  I am paranoid now.

That's unfortunate. Was it from a known dev like SP or some nobody? I'd like to be able to trust CMB, they have been a
good source for Windows binaries, particularly for different architectures. Binaries are always a risk so trusted sources
are critical and it appears CMB is not one of them.

The fact is many AVs flag uninfected miners as malware because some people use them to mine in
botnets. There's nothing better than a cloud of false positives to hide a real threat.