gaise pls, it's just botnets.
Anyways I deleted it. Everyone do as you please....
As long as you downloaded it through the link at the top of the thread, yer fine...
It has been included with malware so the botnet operator can use other people's computers to mine. That's why cgminer and minerd got tagged by the virus scanners.
It isn't a virus itself, it was just the payload, but the scanner companies don't really care about that.
They aren't as thorough as they used to be. >shrugs<
-- Smoov
Ok I'm confused here. I am to allow someone access to my computer's hashing power?
Am I missing something here? is this how this pool works? *scratching head
Yes, you're missing something...
All the program is, is the mining program... there is nothing virus-like about it.
You install it, and point it at your own daemon, or at the pool you're using, to do your mining with.
What the malware peddlers were doing, was using their trojans, to install that program on other people's computers, with their own credentials, in effect, stealing other people's electricity to mine for themselves using the victim's computers.
The mining programs themselves, are not malware. You are not allowing access to your computer through them.
The malware peddlers, were using their own malware, to install the miner programs on other people's computers, turning their computers into miners without their permission. That's all.
The alerts are just false positives by lazy people at the scanner companies who can't be bothered to honestly investigate the miner program. They just find the trojan programs, and flag everything they find inside as a virus, even if it isn't. This isn't anything new, I've had other programs I use end up as collateral damage like that too.
As long as you download your copy of the miner directly from the official source, you're fine.
-- Smoov