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Encounter a know virus running OS X version of Monero GUI #8059

Closed jpitz31 closed 2 years ago

jpitz31 commented 2 years ago

Just installed Monero GUI, on a Mac running MacOS Big Sur version 11.6.

Avast virus protection indicates that the Monero GUI is infected with MacOS:Miner-DL

Refer to the below link for details on this threat:

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cs-go-cheat-delivers-cryptocurrency-miner-on-macos/

"SentinelOne security researcher Arnaud Abbati says the Monero miner uses the user's resources to mine funds for two email addresses registered with the MinerGate service."

Thanks

selsta commented 2 years ago

The GUI contains a miner, that's why it gets flagged by your anti virus.

Add an exception, there isn't anything we can do on our side.

jpitz31 commented 2 years ago

Read the virus report, someone modified the source to to include a threat to mine in the background to several email addresses, one owned by a past developer. The account is held by someone on minergate. They are stealing resources to mine Monero into their account.

selsta commented 2 years ago

That's an unrelated report from 2017.

selsta commented 2 years ago

You can use these steps to confirm the binary has the correct hash: https://www.getmonero.org/resources/user-guides/verification-allos-advanced.html