We can guarantee that the executables are 100% clean. We even decided to avoid packing the executable to allow better inspection by the anti-virus programs. Still, there is always some chance that an over-aggressive anti-virus program will give you a false positive but you can safely ignore it. As an additional precaution you can check if the .zip archive you have downloaded has the right checksum (the checksums are listed in text file PhoenixMiner_2.1_checksums.txt, which is in the MEGA folder from the first post in this thread).

Point taken Still, we thought that our time is best spent trying to improve the mining performance instead of trying to come up with a cool name

While 1% or so may seem too little to matter, the hard truth about mining is that you have to pay your electricity bill and the amortization costs of the hardware, so the real ROI is often less than 20% per year. In this context 1% is quite welcome. Of course, if you keep your earnings in crypto and hope that it will go up, it may be a lot more than that but this is a risk that a lot of miners can't or won't take.


This means that anti-dubugger code is kicking in. Probably you have some kind of CUDA profiler or debugger running and PhoenixMiner is terminating to avoid reverse engineering. At any rate we haven't tested Quadro cards (and their drivers) as they are not very often used for mining.

PhoenixMiner team