It seems to fluctuate between 6Mhs and 9Mhs. If you watch the various pools, they fail about once every one or two weeks which tends to account for the bigger dips in hash rate. Everything about this screams "I'm still a development project", however when Japan wakes up or when they get home in the evening, the hashrate spikes.

I think the biggest thing that people are missing is the fact that this seems to be a very "grassroots" type of setup, so of course you're not going to get rich overnight. 

Might be your antivirus has the file locked or placed elsewhere. I've scanned these and ran them in test environments without any signs of trojan activities. I think what's setting it off is that it can start a monitoring service for remote administration.

The US pool just started up and with only like 5-12 miners at a time, it's slow to payout but it does, in fact, pay out. I thought the same thing as well, but you have to remember it's all new and we're working off CPU mining, not GPU mining, so it's not lightning fast with payouts.