There was a time, closed source miners would have been laughed all the way off of this forum. What changed? When did we, as a community, stop valuing the security of our machines?
In order not to download the virus, you need to download the miners from the official github of the developer. If there is a virus in the miner, then I don’t have wallets and passwords on the mining farm that can be stolen. Now it remains to install Hive OS or Raven OS and you don't need to install anything else. Developers of these systems test miners before adding it to their system.