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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: [ANN] Prospector - Multi-Coin GPU+CPU cryptocurrency miner
by
Branko
on 17/10/2017, 08:46:18 UTC
is it even safe to use this miner ? Cry
it was suggested on https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2105778.2360
but when i tried. v0.0.12-ALPHA

https://www.virustotal.com/ru/file/2d7037fa862e0449f9ac8479faf2f15f77b7f1ecc4e0af3c3f6a781ce5844a5b/analysis/1508193987/
and it acted very strange ... almost (?) escaped sandboxie (one of windows had no yellow borders).....it created something like "svchost.exe.exe"  (very suspicious name for file!!) and was stopped by avira. (was hard to turn it off completely).

also my avira antivirus got strangely disabled after using it. it was running but there was button to "install it" when i clicked to check quarantine.

Most miners give lots of hits on virustotal...sadly, we can' be 100% sure...because
most crypto software developers pack their code same way as virus writers do,
and AV software acts like "better safe than sorry" which leads to lots of
false positives