Haven't used forum from years but all this craziness' made me to create account and post my opinion.
For beginning its clear some one attacked Phoenix miner. From long here is non stop fake link about 5.5d and its all from newbies account. Mods doing good job remove them asap but still some people have DL its and maybe got infected.
Some time ago NH announce their qick miner and how its produce similar hash/now they claim best and its NOT true. I have tested its with my 1080ti and its produce less from all other miners....but main problem with Excavator is you cant use it on any other pool different from NH. So its make this miner complete useless.
I have tested every ETH miner and overall most have close speed but reason i use Phoenix is because its support both AMD/NVidia and its working stable....not only this but he have less fee from all other miners. I thinks its main reasons why many people use it. I don't want to say rest miners is bad just i prefer this.
Now back to NH....i have used them from years when profit is good....what really happened? I can think for 2 scenarios.
First they did mistake DL fake miner and distribute to his customers. If this is true i cant understand how some one from support in NH can be this INCOMPETENT to make mistake like this and how they don't have system for clear checking all mining soft BEFORE they distribute it to his customers. Its simple disaster quality from NH workers. Simple i CANT TRUST any soft distributed from NH from now. Everything can be malware.
Second option is if NH did all this intentional and they are behind attack on PhenixMiner. This make more sense....at lest they are not unprofessional n00bs. This is hell lame/dirty move but its just a business i can understand it but i don't want to support it. Also if they made it intentional they put his customer under risk and its not acceptable. Simple i CANT TRUST NH!
So my conclusion from all this is i wont use any more NH because they loss my trust. Its not just my personal rigs....but some farms i gave support and manage...they wont use NH too. Because bigger farms can loss much if here is security breach coming from NH. How im going to explain it?
Thanks to Phenix for his good miner and thanks to all other honest devs making good miners too.
p.s. English is not my native language.