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Title: cgminer.exe
Post by: grim789 on April 13, 2013, 09:23:17 PM
Ok so i am trying to set up everything i downloaded cgminer not sure if it was most up to date but it does not contain cgminer.exe i read on here that disabling virus software could help tried that no luck. Can someone please help me with this i really want to get it setup but every place i have downloaded cgminer it does not contain cgminer.exe which is like most essential function. Thanks in advance.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: Kluge on April 13, 2013, 09:31:16 PM
That's interesting. Could you direct me to one of the places you downloaded CGminer?

I have an ancient copy of CGminer (2.4.1) if you need it...


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: Deins on April 13, 2013, 09:53:12 PM
Ok so i am trying to set up everything i downloaded cgminer not sure if it was most up to date but it does not contain cgminer.exe i read on here that disabling virus software could help tried that no luck. Can someone please help me with this i really want to get it setup but every place i have downloaded cgminer it does not contain cgminer.exe which is like most essential function. Thanks in advance.
Dont use cgminer... It has random diconnects...


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: belcat on April 13, 2013, 10:30:53 PM
cgminer is working better here than OpenCL/Guiminer.  Plus you can configure it to slow down if the machine is about to overheat (as opposed to just crashing and possibly killing something).
And I've found cgminer reconnects quite well.  The only problem is AVG doesn't like it, seems to block it somehow.  The minute I disable it, cgminer connects and works nicely.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: ReCat on April 13, 2013, 10:39:53 PM
Yeah. Miners are often classified as viruses due to their usage in botnets and trojans. People put them in to mine on poor unknowing people's computers, and then AV's think that the miner softwares are bad when its just the botnets running them that are bad.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: grim789 on April 14, 2013, 01:48:07 PM
That's interesting. Could you direct me to one of the places you downloaded CGminer?

I have an ancient copy of CGminer (2.4.1) if you need it...

https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer (https://github.com/kanoi/cgminer) That is where i downloaded it it's weird i downloaded another place i cant find where at i think it was a link off a youtube video and still had the same issue i would be happy to try and see if i could get your version working for me thanks.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: MaxGen on April 14, 2013, 01:52:05 PM
Malwarebytes has started flagging it as spyware too.  It's not though, if you deliberately intend to run it.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: hashkey on April 14, 2013, 04:48:54 PM
Get your cgminer only from ckolivas. You can check it out on the official cgminer bitcointalk thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0.

There are antiviruses that purge the cgminer.exe file, make sure that you exclude cgminer from your antivirus scans, or restore it after your antivirus quarantined/purged it.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: belcat on April 14, 2013, 08:16:49 PM
Get your cgminer only from ckolivas. You can check it out on the official cgminer bitcointalk thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0.

There are antiviruses that purge the cgminer.exe file, make sure that you exclude cgminer from your antivirus scans, or restore it after your antivirus quarantined/purged it.

It doesn't remove it.  It simply stops it from connecting; it starts, and seems to hang.  I disable the AVG anti-virus, and it starts and does everything normally.  If I enable the anti-virus while cvg is running, and it continues for a bit then stops.  I've added the whole directory as something to exclude from scans but that doesn't do it.


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: hammz on April 14, 2013, 08:57:47 PM
I ditched AVG (and everyone I know) when it turned into the monstrous pig of a program it was already a few years ago.

Grab avast..no false detections on cgminer....download, unpack and go..   


Title: Re: cgminer.exe
Post by: hashkey on April 14, 2013, 11:28:15 PM
Get your cgminer only from ckolivas. You can check it out on the official cgminer bitcointalk thread https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.0.

There are antiviruses that purge the cgminer.exe file, make sure that you exclude cgminer from your antivirus scans, or restore it after your antivirus quarantined/purged it.

It doesn't remove it.  It simply stops it from connecting; it starts, and seems to hang.  I disable the AVG anti-virus, and it starts and does everything normally.  If I enable the anti-virus while cvg is running, and it continues for a bit then stops.  I've added the whole directory as something to exclude from scans but that doesn't do it.


Can you post any error messages that appears when cgminer crashes? Have you checked AVG's network connection permissions? It might be the case that AVG has blocked any network connections for the cgminer program, just like what Norton does. Unblock cgminer if that's the case.