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Title: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: pacojones on October 01, 2013, 06:29:48 PM http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57605411-83/symantec-takes-on-one-of-largest-botnets-in-history/
+1 for those of us who are waiting on mining hardware! Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: briehost on October 01, 2013, 06:44:26 PM Wow. Awesome find! And I thought that Symantec Heuristic Scan was voodoo. Ok maybe I still do!
I would be interested in hearing more about how this "Sinkhole" mechanic works. CPU Bitcoin mining has gone the way of renting DVDs at Blockbuster. I supposed the totality of 1.9 million slaves CPU mining Bitcoin would probably not be more a few terahash. At the current rate a terahash yields a little less than $500 a day. Now if he were mining scrypt... ::) Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: vm1990 on October 01, 2013, 08:13:35 PM well if you break it down even more all that mining power is free.... probably uses 1 computer to spread all the commands, so very little effort in it,
youll probably find they use bitcoin because it is easire to run at higher speed with very little effect on the computer where scrypt mining leaves an extreme lag on anything it touches people using GPUs in the past will have noticed this Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: briehost on October 01, 2013, 08:18:17 PM Very true. If SHA mining is relatively unnoticeable then that is just like a bit of extra free money. He could also be merge mining Devcoin, Namecoin, and ixcoin!
Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: vm1990 on October 01, 2013, 08:22:07 PM not to mention all the paid to click stuff.... anyhow i hope hes pissed and hes going to be very poor XD
Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: briehost on October 01, 2013, 08:29:12 PM No love lost for botnet operators
Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: vm1990 on October 01, 2013, 08:32:18 PM damn right although i wouldnt complain if i had access to one ;D
Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: MerchantMiner on October 01, 2013, 09:02:17 PM http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57605411-83/symantec-takes-on-one-of-largest-botnets-in-history/ +1 for those of us who are waiting on mining hardware! i read about this today seams while the gold price dropped some good was being done out there, and as for amercia gov shutting down it really didnt affect much . the nasdaq and dowjones was actually up . go figure Title: Re: bitcoin mining botnet is being attacked by symantec Post by: briehost on October 01, 2013, 09:06:37 PM Since they're not fillabusting we can actually get some work done!
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