hello to all!!!!
i am new to mining. i have started mining ETN and ENQ on my phone, but i am going to try to mine using Awesome Miner on my laptop. i have downloaded it from
https://www.awesomeminer.com/download/setup/AwesomeMiner.msi but my antivirus warns me it has a malware when i try to install it:
is this normal or should i worry??? any help would be appreciated!!!
thank you!!!!
Hi and thanks for your question.
In the past AVG/Avast was very cooperative as they analyzed Awesome Miner and white-listed it as one of the few mining related applications that were considered safe. A while ago they changed their policies and have special rules for mining related software - and although their experts agree that Awesome Miner isn't a threat - they do have some new policies around mining related software where they prefer to mark it as a potential threat.
For most of the AVG/Avast user base, mining isn't something wanted - and this is the reason why they prefer to mark anything related to mining as a threat.
I've been in contact with their support team a number of times during the last few months, but it's not possible to change their decision that Awesome Miner is related to mining and by being related to mining other rules apply. So this is an unfortunate policy on their side that I'm not able to do anything about at the moment.
It should be possible to configure Avast with an exception to allow Awesome Miner.