Quote from: EmmaVitto@tutanota.com on March 16, 2018, 09:02:32 PM

It seems that more and more antivirus applications are recognizing wallet or miners as virus/malware/suspicious behaviors.

Maybe someone knowledgeable can advise why is that. What is so specific making it a problem, use of CPU resources?

Quote from: Paddy321 on March 16, 2018, 09:34:19 PM

There is maleware/virus out there containing cpu miners, thus (mis)using your computing ressources to mine cryptocurrency at the advantage of those who created the maleware. Thus your antivirus software might be triggered by the signature of some cpu miners.

Just add an exception and you should be fine.

Pretty common one right now is the Monero Mining virus. Unexpected people clicking on clicks / getting phished. Pretty smart idea for the people doing it. Creating a Cluster pool and everything. Especially Monero since it's not traceable. I think most of these miners are running in the background and most task manager applications won't pick it up but CPU performance will be degraded. Using process hacker is the best tool. If you need to exclude that .exe, windows defender will not allow the exception. Try excluding the folder its in. If that doesn't let you, use Windows Powershell and force it.