I have another machine with the same binaries running but with Security Essentials installed.  I just started a full scan.  I'll let you know what I find.

Is anyone else seeing this?  I logged into my computer today only to see a security alert telling me that "bitcoin-miner.exe" (the one included in the gui miner) is a "trojan.gen".  I wonder if heuristics don't like its behavior or do you think a bad version slipped in?

There were also several random named files in the temp dir that where flagged as well as the same generic trojan.

That email did not provide me anything I didn't already know from reading the forum.  It was unsolicited and therefore SPAM.  It was obviously opportunistic, maybe not malicious, but definitively opportunistic.

How come no one has questioned where this jerk/spammer got all of our emails (I got one too).  So either the hacked DB was leaked (which I haven't read yet) or this guy was was involved.

Edit:
I just saw the link to the hacked database.  This guy is still a tool.

Bitter-Sweet.

I was a little excited about my $2.00 emergency buy order that was filled during all of this.

No it's not.  I have been in here for months and it still shows me at under two hours.

So I have been browsing these forum for over three months (as a logged in user--at least most of the time) and it says I have only been online for 1 hour and 38 minutes (Total time logged in).  This doesn't make sense.  Or am I looking at the wrong info?

Does anyone know if he has posted anywhere how his whitelist is working?  Can I use a range (if I am behind a transparant proxy with multiple proxies)?  It allows for DNS but is that checked everytime the ip tries to connect (not likely) or is it only checked when you first put it in?  This would make it less useful for dynamic addresses?

So from you statements, is it safe to assume that your password was not a very good one?

Of course I can't prove causation (especially without the data from the dark pool trades).  But this is the largest and most long lasting rally (with no real correction) that I have seen since I have been watching bitcoins. 

I understand the risks of trading and largely am not all that concerned about dark pools.  However, when those that set the rules change the rules (especially changes that stand to quickly and drastically change the market dynamics), it is reasonable to expect some level of communication to all those who have money in that market.   

Now I am not making accusations; the experiment is still relatively new and mistakes will be made, but this kind of activity is often investigated and prosecuted in the world of regulated trading.  I like to give the folks at MT. Gox the benefit of the doubt on this one, but I also want to encourage a higher level responsibility from those holding all the chips.  We all trust that Mt. Gox won't just up and take off with everyone's money and bitcoins.  But in reality, there is nothing stopping them.  I don't even know where they are located or who they are (typically a big no, no when it come to someone who I trust to hold onto my assets).

So far they have done a good job at maintaining my trust (and like I said, this is still a fun experiment with a huge potential investment).  But that can change if it starts to appear as though they are gaming the system.  I don't yet think they are, but they need to be careful and understand their level of responsibility in this.  Because with this recent, and unannounced from my perspective, change they stood to greatly benefit from inside knowledge (i.e, insider trading).

May the bitcoin experiment continue forward.  However, if we want this to hit mainstream and to be taken seriously, we need to maintain some level self regulation.  Anarchy may be the ultimate form of freedom.  But in true anarchy typically lies chaos and degeneration.

So this is what is going on.  It would have been nice if there was a broad announcement about this. Mt. Gox should have announced this more clearly on their site because was a significant change.  If I had known that this rally was being influenced by a new factor, my trade behavior would have been very different over the past 48 hours.

So what am I doing wrong?  I downloaded the pre-compiled binaries for windows yesterday.  I have tried them on two machines (both with win7 64).  

Once machine has 2 Radeon HD 5770s (not in crossfire) and I am getting 0 K/hash/s not matter which GPU I try to select (although from the output it appears to only be finding one GPU anyway)

I get similar output with opencl on the other machine which has an Nvidia 8800gts in it.  When trying the CUDA option on that machine I get better results.  However with the default optionsit was getting about 1000khash/s which seemed a little low.  With tweaking (I now have the gpugrid set to 512) it is now getting between 10000 and 15000.  Is that still too low?

Thanks for this tool.  I look forward to getting it to work.