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Quote from: alex_fun on May 11, 2013, 02:23:47 PM

lol fake screen shot with app litecoin in it

well maybe some one can make a list of this fudders and post them in 1 thread Cheesy

Because I'm still a noob. At least now I can ignore the log and keep on mining. Grin

tb

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lol fake screen shot with app litecoin in it

well maybe some one can make a list of this fudders and post them in 1 thread Cheesy

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Quote from: techbytes on May 11, 2013, 02:14:38 PM

Malwarebytes has been blocking a lot of attempted access to my cnc, btc and yac wallets. This all started happening when I started mining yacoin. Does this mean my system is infected? I did a scan and it found two infected files, "cgminer.exe and minerd.exe". I deleted both but still getting notification about block attempts to my wallets.

Nothing is missing yet from my wallets. I would hate to reinstall the OS. Any other apps to remove malware/trojan?

tb

Those malware programs flag cgminer as a virus as well.. It's a false flag because they are an app that mines innocently but because of the other viruses that mine. Why do you have a minerd.exe in your Litecoin AppData folder? That shouldn't be.

I installed Yacoin on many computers and didn't see anything unusual or bitcoins stolen.

FUD.

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Quote from: techbytes on May 11, 2013, 02:14:38 PM

Malwarebytes has been blocking a lot of attempted access to my cnc, btc and yac wallets. This all started happening when I started mining yacoin. Does this mean my system is infected? I did a scan and it found two infected files, "cgminer.exe and minerd.exe". I deleted both but still getting notification about block attempts to my wallets.

Nothing is missing yet from my wallets. I would hate to reinstall the OS. Any other apps to remove malware/trojan?

tb

Really!? are you kidding me?

You aren't aware that mining software gets flagged by almost every av/malware scanner out there?

*facepalm*

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Quote from: techbytes on May 11, 2013, 02:14:38 PM

Malwarebytes has been blocking a lot of attempted access to my cnc, btc and yac wallets. This all started happening when I started mining yacoin. Does this mean my system is infected? I did a scan and it found two infected files, "cgminer.exe and minerd.exe". I deleted both but still getting notification about block attempts to my wallets.

Nothing is missing yet from my wallets. I would hate to reinstall the OS. Any other apps to remove malware/trojan?

tb

Sounds like CPUMiner, as we'd been suspecting. Where'd you download it from?

The only way to be 100% safe after being exposed to malware is a complete drive reformat and OS reinstall. The malware probably isn't that sophisticated, though, so removal is probably sufficient.

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Malwarebytes has been blocking a lot of attempted access to my cnc, btc and yac wallets. This all started happening when I started mining yacoin. Does this mean my system is infected? I did a scan and it found two infected files, "cgminer.exe and minerd.exe". I deleted both but still getting notification about block attempts to my wallets.

Nothing is missing yet from my wallets. I would hate to reinstall the OS. Any other apps to remove malware/trojan?

tb

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Quote from: hdclover on May 11, 2013, 08:45:57 AM

Warning possible keylogger or sensitive data extraction please reinstall your OS if you have already lost some bitcoins

I've dealt with hdclover on the 9.5.13 selling him YACs. He was desperate to get more.

Anyhow I have checked the BTC address he sent my payment from and there is nothing missing. So either hdclover had a different wallet.dat corrupted or did not lose anything.

Anything else, make your own conclusions. And feel free to repost that to the other posts he did.

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is client needs to be running or it just need to be run once, and infect the system?

cheapbit

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(the win32 binary downloaded soon after release)

tested under a VM for ~30minutes.
no read operation toward bitcoin wallet yet.
and no dns request to the suffix yet.

although the motivation to release yacoin is still highly suspicious.

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i done some testing, and the client seems fine, just updated the post on yacointalk.com.

still going to test all the miners to see.

but for now, this seems like a campain to lover the price of yac, to earn some cash from panic sales =)
so look after people buying large amount of yac now, and you will probably find the man/woman behind this scare tactic.

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Quote from: Fernandez on May 11, 2013, 08:55:32 AM

I think th eclient is safe. It probably is one of those modified miners.

Maybe this one - can somebody check it? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2095639

The proof that one of those crying about stolen wallet indeed downloaded and run miner in question:

https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2096546

Damm - I am running that too. The stealer is welcome to my Bitcoin wallet as I transferred out all of them.

Is it just Bitcoin wallet it is after? My FTCs are fine. Don't fancy installing the OS.

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Quote from: shaal on May 11, 2013, 08:59:56 AM

if i's the minerd tool that has the trojan it in, it could come from this here, This is where the first minerd client was made for yacoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199517.0;all

hmm would't the reporting of stealing begun earlier then?

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Quote from: hdclover on May 11, 2013, 08:45:57 AM

Warning possible keylogger or sensitive data extraction please reinstall your OS if you have already lost some bitcoins

Can you please provide some kind of proof of the stealing =)?

maby som screenshots of the client, transaction, and compare it to blockcain

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if i's the minerd tool that has the trojan it in, it could come from this here, This is where the first minerd client was made for yacoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=199517.0;all

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Quote from: Fernandez on May 11, 2013, 08:55:32 AM

I think th eclient is safe. It probably is one of those modified miners.

Maybe this one - can somebody check it? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2095639

Yes that's my theory to. for i think there is a stealer out there, since it's alot of people posting and claim there btc i stolen.

but i don't think the Yacoin funder is behind it.

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I think th eclient is safe. It probably is one of those modified miners.

Maybe this one - can somebody check it? https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.2095639

obermensch

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Just installed Yacoin on one of my laptops, and bitcoin wallet, and transferes 0.01 btc, to see if they disapear. will post update

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Seems to be true.. My coins just gone... I have to do something! Shocked. I just have nothing to say. I was rich, now I have nothing.
I took my client from yacoin.org

Cry

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Quote from: obermensch on May 11, 2013, 08:40:23 AM

Hi, i am the admin at Yacointalk.com

i posted this now http://yacointalk.com/index.php/topic,26.0.html

So, what we need to state here

is it the client that steal, or is it the windows miner? or something else.
i have just sent mail to the Yacoin creator, to state if he compiled that client himself, or someone else did it.

please don't spam this tread over.

and please! post some proof of the stealing, so we can state that, this is not a campaign to shoot the Yacoin to the ground in value.

Right now there is zero proof of something actually being wrong. Some people are working on finding out if some of the programs are acting fishy.

Until then, it's probably better to not spam panic-posts all over, like Mr RoyalCoin supporter (hdclover) above me has been doing. It just adds to the FUD.

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This has a 95% chance of being bullshit, for more info : https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/yacoin-fear-mongering-campaign-updated-202078

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