Quote from: DeathAndTaxes on September 09, 2013, 11:28:19 PM

Quote from: atomicchaos on September 09, 2013, 11:27:01 PM

Quote from: 01BTC10 on September 09, 2013, 11:08:39 PM

Quote from: atomicchaos on September 09, 2013, 11:02:34 PM

Quote from: 01BTC10 on September 09, 2013, 11:00:57 PM

If a botnet is a problem then it show a flaw in the coin. Fix the coin since trying to kill all botnet is a waste of time.

I don't think that statement should even be graced with a response.

Then have fun botnet hunting with Microsoft and Kaspersky.

Ok, I'll bite. How would a coin stop from being mined by a botnet?

Produce hardware that can mine many magnitudes more efficiently than what the botnet has access to.

For the record based on the chart I seriously doubt it is a botnet in the general sense (general purpose trojan and rookit). The day to day changes in hashing power are too consistent. A botnet will consist of tens of thousands of nodes and the % that is online is constantly changing. Some nodes are killed permently and the botnet is constantly recruiting new zombie nodes. The graph looks nothing like one would expect for a botnet.

Now maybe someone misuing corporate resources? Maybe.

Ok, let's summarize:
- It's not a classic botnet
- it's not a gpu farm
- it looks like something running in laptops/desktops and not servers.
- it has the classic pattern of applications in corporate IT
- it works on Saturdays!

I bet for abuse of (a lot of) corporate resources... If so, it cannot be a single person... And this is really, really difficult.

We need the help of a pool operator for sure.

Fascinating.