While I don't dispute the fact that they're not the true StacyCoin devs, I don't think their version of the miner is a virus only because I ran Quark's 64bit version of minerd through Virus Total and got almost the same results.  Having said that, I'm taking steps to make sure I don't get burned just in case.

Hm, well, I didn't download any of the standalone miners - just the wallet. Either this a

1) purely a troll release
2) something malicious somewhere (Windows-Qt.zip came back clean through, don't know about other files)
3) total confusion, maybe a dev though Stacy was just actively looking for someone to develop and release a coin

Definitely odd considering everything worked right away. The wallet loaded. It connected to the network and updated very quickly. And it solo mined, and I even found a block, which was shortly confirmed after. Someone sent me a donation too so transactions were working.

Such odd. So confusion.