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Board Mining (Altcoins)
Re: PhoenixMiner 5.5c: fastest Ethereum/Ethash miner with lowest devfee (Win/Linux)
by
brooklynite1
on 20/02/2021, 12:13:02 UTC
I accidentally downloaded the malware 5.5d hotfix file from the spam user... any advice or is this really bad and all my info is compromised?

I hope the infected system is not your personal computer. If it just a mining ring, it's not a big problem.
Otherwise, i recommand to format and reinstall Windows. and like says UserU, change all passwords!

Always choose the download link on the first topic page.


 Wink


The original link is removed. Thats why so many, including me, are downloaded viruses from all over the place. The one I downblaoded looked legit on bitcointalk and had Github and everything. And worked perfectly until after a week I saw someone had done remote desktop and was using my rig, as soon as I VNC'd into my rig ,he stopped but I could see all the browser and tabs he had opened and the Chrome password page he was trying to log into Binance, but he had not gotten the password yet and I removed all passwords from chrome and continued. And next day I think he came back and literally deleted windows files, all desktop icons, all miner software and I had to spend