Re: Claymore's Dual Ethereum AMD+NVIDIA GPU Miner v11.5 (Windows/Linux)
Hello good day ,Claymore v11.5 and phoenixminer 2.8.a users.
First, I used an online virus scanner to check the file phoenixminer 2.8.a.
The results are: 7/65 detected
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/ab3f31a48199c800f7f958df21aed6565a9e972581d301ffedc0afa15b8e1cb7/detection
which is actually an excellent result, given that the Claymore's v 11.5 miner gives 19/62 positives
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/9f2da65c0d6ff694aa66bf9207de9b42f62604021459dfbcba1c2ea2625116c2/detection
And even the open-source ethminer 0.14.0.dev4 gives 10/65 positives, which is ridiculous .
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/33c0d6b7676d69ed497f8f91fa88ddb7b41c3db2e0cc0291de7d6c0724f66e9c/detection
a miner is a trojan now!
As a reply i want to inform you about that.. First, I used an online virus scanner to check the file phoenixminer 2.8.a.
The results are: 7/65 detected
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/ab3f31a48199c800f7f958df21aed6565a9e972581d301ffedc0afa15b8e1cb7/detection
which is actually an excellent result, given that the Claymore's v 11.5 miner gives 19/62 positives
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/9f2da65c0d6ff694aa66bf9207de9b42f62604021459dfbcba1c2ea2625116c2/detection
And even the open-source ethminer 0.14.0.dev4 gives 10/65 positives, which is ridiculous .
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/33c0d6b7676d69ed497f8f91fa88ddb7b41c3db2e0cc0291de7d6c0724f66e9c/detection
a miner is a trojan now!
All miners will be on virus lists in very close time, because some users mining over Company sources, like ; Servers, Endpoints etc..
For the reason all the antivirus and threat protection softwares reporting miners to system admin for threat, If Claymore a threat for companies , yes its a way to find miners over companies.
So, its not releated with Trojan, its releated with Company protection.
Best Regards.
The problem is that many no longer differentiate between a malicious (AKA "virus") code and a "PUP" or Potentially Unwanted Program in a commercial environment. For businesses, you likely don't want employees running a mining application on your company servers, right? Speaking as a former network security officer for the U S Department of Justice, you don't really care exactly what it is, but rather whether or not it is allowed by your "Terms of Service" (PUP) or whatever - or if it is actually harmful or what we use the term "virus".
"VirusTotal.com" doesn't care why (or how) any of the "anti-virus" applications determine it is unwanted, they just report the total detects.
There is no malicious code here, but it is a P2P app, and most - if not all - companies don't want Peer to Peer software on their servers.