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Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.2 (Windows/Linux)
by
leonix007
on 04/03/2018, 09:44:53 UTC
I installed new 11.2 and now Win10 defender reports (coinminer bit trojan) and removes claymore. What to do? deactive defender, will that be safe?

Add the Claymore app to exclusions

see this topic

https://support.microsoft.com/en-ph/help/4028485/windows-10-add-an-exclusion-to-windows-defender-antivirus

Claymore should add this link to the first post in section where he discusses miner being recognized as virus on Windows.

Probably not needed as he already stated what to do

from fist page


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KNOWN ISSUES

- Windows 10 Defender recognizes miner as a virus, some antiviruses do the same. Miner is not a virus, add it to Defender exceptions.
  I write miners since 2014. Most of them are recognized as viruses by some paranoid antiviruses, perhaps because I pack my miners to protect them from disassembling, perhaps because some people include them into their botnets, or perhaps these antiviruses are not good, I don't know. For these years, a lot of people used my miners and nobody confirmed that my miner stole anything or did something bad.
  Note that I can guarantee clean binaries only for official links in my posts on this forum (bitcointalk). If you downloaded miner from some other link - it really can be a virus.
  However, my miners are closed-source so I cannot prove that they are not viruses. If you think that I write viruses instead of good miners - do not use this miner, or at least use it on systems without any valuable data.