So, I have been happily mining for well over a year now with CGminer, currently with version 4.9.2 and my fun little RockMiner.

Last night, the definition overlords decided that my mining operation should come to a halt as my antivirus (MSE) and Chrome think cgminer is now a virus and subsequently will terminate the exe file with extreme prejudice.

I bet various malware have just packed up cgminer inside them to do nefarious things like mine bitcoin for the hackers.

Definitely a false positive when Virustotal says this:
https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/8e33ff3d54bbb898b7bdbc066cd7314285be954a614ef8f38fe51cd95a9acdd4/analysis/1441121898/

Hello friends! 

I'm a bit of a newbie to the mining world and having lots of headaches mining on a brand-new Windows 7 installation in VMware Fusion.
(also tried two other VM's I had set up before, no dice)

I just moved to a new place and my U3 is really misbehaving. I really wish Bitmain made the setup a whole lot more robust and reliable.

The error is: No device detected when using the latest cgminer provided by Bitmain.
It has power, the fan runs and the USB light activates on plug-in.

Plugging in USB brings up the prompt to connect to Windows/Mac, so the hardware is showing up...

I follow the instructions -
Install SiLabs Driver
Replace with Zadig
Set cgminer bmsc options and boom! All set! (in theory)

I tried BFGminer and no luck with that either.

There is some disconnect between the Antminer and I cannot figure out what it is.
Any tips?
Thanks!