Quote from: Nihil5 on Today at 09:18:25 AM

Quote from: Targonis on Today at 12:30:37 AM

Quote from: webhead on Today at 12:21:18 AM

why does your miner come as a virus and why does using it unleash a coinmer virus , i wonder what else phoenix miner dows while using it , probably scans your drives hoping for wallets to hack , how many people lost crypto if they had a wallet on the same system as mining i wonder , lets do a poll. if it comes up as a virus in the new version nobody should use it.

There are a number of viruses/malware that use mining engines. The idea is to infect as many computers as possible and then use them to mine for the author of the virus/malware. As a result, most legit miners are picked up as a "virus", because they don't know what is intentional mining and what is an infection.

Not only that but they also use quite a few code obfuscation techniques common to malicious software, so a lot of DNN based heuristic detection systems flag them since very little legitimate software is so heavily obfuscated.

That said I think explaining this to this particular individual, looking at his later posts, may be a lost cause. One of the signs that mining has peaked I suppose; even complete idiots barely capable of tying their shoelaces are trying to get in on it.

Good point. I tried to explain it, but some people are unable to understand a basic concept.