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ethereum-mining / ethminer

Ethereum miner with OpenCL, CUDA and stratum support

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Suspicious Trojan File #2319

Open Game-js opened 3 years ago

Game-js commented 3 years ago

I believe this application might have a Trojan in it, there are multiple security notifications I got, C:\Users(My Profile)\Downloads\ethminer-0.19.0-alpha.0-cuda9.1-windows-amd64.zip the file is called well of course Trojan.BitCoinMiner and then another is RiskWare.BitCoinMiner I don't think developers would just put those kind of names for applications.

4-FLOSS-Free-Libre-Open-Source-Software commented 3 years ago

I don't think developers would just put those kind of names for applications.

I do think it is a false positive, since some "trojan" put a miner on victim device without their knowledge to profit from them. But the pattern matches here.

Microsoft says:

PUA:Win64/CoinMiner