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Topic: is GUIMiner-scrypt safe? (Read 8585 times)

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December 05, 2013, 12:55:45 PM
#6
Well because it's a bitcoin miner, silly.  Cheesy

It's just false positives, but as for the infected browser one, you might want to run a thorough scan for that. I've received false positives from the miner from AVs, but never for browsers.

OK thanks, im happy at that. (i was only trying to get a better understanding of mining anyhow.... My pc would take 10,000+ years to mine any)
I am doing some scans to check i have cleared all trace from my browser....  Cry
I dont want to loose my "virtual shines".... i dont care what they are worth, or that i can never hold them, never see them, etc, but for some reason i have grown attached to them  Grin (time to put the little fellows in cold storage i think!)

Thanks
Ford
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December 05, 2013, 11:59:17 AM
#5
Well because it's a bitcoin miner, silly.  Cheesy

It's just false positives, but as for the infected browser one, you might want to run a thorough scan for that. I've received false positives from the miner from AVs, but never for browsers.
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V for Victory or Rather JustV8
December 05, 2013, 11:57:54 AM
#4
Weird, that Trojan shouldn't be there... I get the PUPs, though, which you can probably ignore.
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December 05, 2013, 11:38:04 AM
#3
any ideas why this says it has infected my browser, as mining software should have nothing to do with this?
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December 05, 2013, 11:13:11 AM
#2
Yeah, those are false positives. Miners appear in a lot of malware to get other computers to mine for them, but since that's what you're doing, you can go ahead and run it.
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December 05, 2013, 11:02:07 AM
#1
Around a week ago, i downloaded GUIMiner-scrypt from the download link on https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/guiminer-scrypt-a-guiminer-fork-for-mining-scrypt-chains-150331

However, now when i run a Malwarebyte scan, this is telling me the downloaded file (extracted files), and my chrome browser is now infected with:
  • PUP.BitCoinMiner
  • Trojan.BtcMiner.TS
  • PUP.Proxy.BCM

Are these false positives, or are these something i need to worry about and remove?

Thanks
Ford
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