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Board CPU/GPU Bitcoin mining hardware
Re: Ufasoft Miner Thread - SSE2-optimized for Intel CPUs, version 0.19 (2011-July)
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d3m0n1q_733rz
on 09/08/2011, 09:07:29 UTC
Ah yes, it used to be recognized by Malware-bytes as well, but I made it very well known that bitcoin miners were legitimate programs and that the true malware lies not in the legitimate program that it downloads, but in the code executed to put it on the computer in the first place.  I imagine that if we spam Comodo with false positive messages, they will be more apt to remove it from their malware list and go after the real threat/trojan.
We should definetly do that with all the av's that detects this miner as it starts to become annoying.
Most of these anti-viruses are part of a collaborative network that shares virus signatures between one-another.  When one detects what it believes to be a virus and creates a signature for it, it passes it on to the others and they update theirs to catch it too.  I fear that Ufasoft may have gotten caught in such a collaboration so what you propose may be the only way to handle it.