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Topic: Are you a victim of Bitcoin miner bot? (Read 1701 times)

legendary
Activity: 1512
Merit: 1049
Death to enemies!
April 05, 2013, 04:32:39 PM
#5
Always make sure antivirus is up-to-date.
You can't even rely on antivirus software because you could get hit before the software knows they exist. I'm not happy storing mine 'hot' at all....
This is why bots are crypted to make them fully undetectable by antivirus software. When executed they kill the antivirus software to avoid future problems.

Check the executables in every way possible BEFORE running them. Hashes of files, digital signatures, PGP, different mirrors hosting them. Don't run any "super ultra extra system optimizer free edition" or similar scam. Brains of human operator are better than any antivirus.
newbie
Activity: 52
Merit: 0
April 05, 2013, 06:18:59 AM
#4
Always make sure antivirus is up-to-date.
You can't even rely on antivirus software because you could get hit before the software knows they exist. I'm not happy storing mine 'hot' at all....
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
April 05, 2013, 03:59:43 AM
#3
Always make sure antivirus is up-to-date.
newbie
Activity: 28
Merit: 0
April 05, 2013, 03:57:18 AM
#2
no
newbie
Activity: 56
Merit: 0
April 05, 2013, 03:52:08 AM
#1
With the incredible rise of Bitcoin price, hackers jump into the game and turn PC, laptop into miner slave.

http://www.bitcoinrumors.com/2013/04/05/bitcoin-mining-malware-enslaves-computers/

in the bottom of the article, there is a link to sale page of Bitcoin miner bot. Not sure if someone here can build a botnet of bitcoin miner slaves?

Imagine you have 1000 slaves in the network and each only run on CPU at 5MH/s ....

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