Issue

[Milk8]

I build and run the file on my own pc, with none of the settings selected other than cpu mining, looking in task manager I 100% do not see the file running, im sure its a user error but I cant figure out why it simply will not work.

[UnamSanctam]

What settings in the 'Main' tab did you use? Keep in mind that the miner gets injected into the process you select in the main tab as well so you should look for that file (by default explorer.exe).

[Milk8]

Yea I injected into the default explorer.exe, I figured I could see the random thing taking a shit ton of my cpu in task manager never the less?

[UnamSanctam]

Yes, but are your connection settings correct?

[Milk8]

What do you mean by connection settings? My pool? or?

[UnamSanctam]

Yes are your pool, wallet and password settings correct for the pool you're trying to connect to?

[Milk8]

Yea its all correct, I pasted my pool and username from minergate, wouldnt I be able to see the process in task manager taking a ton of cpu usage anyways or no? Its also not saying there is a bot connected on minergate

[UnamSanctam]

Yes it should, keep in mind that MinerGate is quite tricky and doesn't always work. I can't really test it since MinerGate doesn't work for me no matter which miner or configuration I use though it does work for some people. From what I can see there seems to be something wrong with their severs or something like it. MinerGate does also steal your hashrate it you care about that.

[Milk8]

Alright then Lol, what miner should I use then? Preferably one thats easy to use obviously

[UnamSanctam]

Well, no miner I've tried has worked with MinerGate but I usually use other pools like Nanopool, MoneroOcean or Hashvault. Keep in mind that of all pools it's only Nanopool that I'm sure of doesn't ban you for having a lot of miners unless you host your own xmrig-proxy. On my wiki: https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentXMRMiner/wiki all examples are with Nanopool if you want to try that.

[Milk8]

Is MineXMR.com reliable?

[Milk8]

Alright ill try that

[Milk8]

Its saying my address is invalid bc ive never mined before and all the tutorials online are for if your planning to mine on your own pc so its already mining to that wallet with the default nanopool miner, do you know how I can get my pool port without using the default miner they provide to use on ur own pc

[UnamSanctam]

The wallet will become 'valid' (if you mean that it says the account wasn't found) after you've mined a bit with the miner since then it will 'create' your account. Just use pool xmr-eu1.nanopool.org:14444 and your XMR wallet address as the wallet address and leave the password blank and it should work.

[Milk8]

I did that and built the file with the same default things and still see nothing happening in task manager, could it be an issue that im currently on a macbook with windows installed on it currently using windows? Pretty sure it uses the same parts as a normal default windows pc would

[Milk8]

No clue what I did, but made it as cmd.exe instead and now cmd is using all my cpu in task manager and in process hacker i sww it aswell, so I assume that its working for whatever reason now

[Milk8]

Would I need to crypt the file to stay safe if people get the file?

[Milk8]

Oh and is there anything I need to do on nanopool other than just wait till I have enough to withdraw money? I see theres a settings thing with email but it dosent work and idk if I need that or not? Also explorer does not work for me, only cmd does

[UnamSanctam]

Using an obfuscator would be preferable yes, you can read more here: https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentXMRMiner/wiki#how-can-i-decrease-detections

To change the minimum payout you can read the wallet address section of the wiki as well since I have given an example there.

Explorer should work, don't torget to kill any old miners that might be running as explorer.exe already. To do this you can use something like Process Hacker and search for --url in the top-right and all miners should show up.

[Milk8]

The explorer still does not work for whatever reason, is monero or ethereum generally better for mining? If they had a solid gpu would ethereum be far better than monero mining from a good cpu or no? Considering all pcs dont have gpus

[UnamSanctam]

Hmm weird, and you're sure that all miners are closed down?

It's optimal to mine XMR with CPU and ETH with GPU at the same time since they are both designed to work together.

[Milk8]

Is it possible to bind both files together into one?

[UnamSanctam]

Yes you can use a file binder.

[Milk8]

And if the person does not have a gpu it would just only run the xmr one? Is it fine using the same process for both?

[UnamSanctam]

Yes, if no GPU is found the ETH miner will just close down while the XMR one keeps running.

You can use the same process but using seperate ones can make it harder to find both.

[Milk8]

Alright ill do that, you know of any good binders?

[Milk8]

I used lime binder and it worked, you know if theres any way to make this us on windows ud? with any paid crypter or?

[UnamSanctam]

Well you can search 'file binder github' on Google for quite a lot of results but one user used 'Dream AIO' but I think you need to build the program from source yourself since it's an educational project.

[Milk8]

alright

[UnamSanctam]

You can use the same obfuscator in the link that I linked before to make it more undetected. https://github.com/UnamSanctam/SilentXMRMiner/wiki#how-can-i-decrease-detections

[Milk8]

I used that one and it only brought it down by like 1 on vt, I used confuser which I assume you know what that it brought it down by like 12 and only had 8 detections, I binded them and now that file gets 37 detections which is pretty bad, so binders increase the detection by a bunch I take it?

[Milk8]

Oh and this is fine for mining on a shit ton of pcs as it is with just one?

[UnamSanctam]

Well antiviruses consider binders as malware which is why detections go up, you can use ConfuserEx or .NET Reactor on the binded file as well to decrease it. If the pool and everything is correct then it will work on as many conputers as you want it to.

[Milk8]

If I try to do it with confuser it just says failed(With the binded file) before it worked with the single file though

[UnamSanctam]

Is the binded file a .NET file? If it is then it should work, try with other settings if it doesn't.