This could be the proof of work sleeper coin. Easily could 100X. I have no idea why there are no posts in here. Guess devs are too busy actually building stuff. I'd mine it, but what do I know, only been here since 2013.

After inquiring about the situation with Nicehash, I received an answer from them that NO ONE was compromised.
That there was no malware in any Phoenixminer version ever in nicehashminer.
Well that news is a relief for most of us. But I feel bad for the guys who wiped their entire PC and have to re-install
everything over a false alarm. Nicehash could have handled this situation better and should update their reddit and
twitter with an apology stating there turns out to be no malware, but better safe than sorry. I think this would do
a lot for customer retention. I also think a REAL human dev/coder should be vetting all future plug in updates to nicehash
miner. He could do this on a test machine with tools to look for malware as well as communication from pc that
shouldn't be happening (zone alarm does this very well). And maybe having a small amount of bitcoin and ether
on the test machine for bait would be a good idea. They can monitor that machine for a few weeks and if nothing
happens, they are a lot more sure it isn't malware. The rare ticking time bomb a year from now case is not that
likely and even if it was a trojan like that, they would have a month to find out about it. It is not like the latest miner
plug in is WAY faster, it is maybe 1-5% improvement each time, so just wait, as you say better safe than sorry.

Nicehash, please tell us exactly at what time and date did you incorporate the supposedly fake phoenixminer?
Many people have whole disk/partion back ups like Acronis or Aoemi and could wipe and get their pc back minus
a few days or weeks if needed. So when did nicehashminer install the suspected malware?

No one is going to download 5.5d from your links Mr. Brand New.
The question is what is really in 5.5d? Is it an address change, keylogger,
virus, or trojan? I sure hope some people on this forum are smart
enough to figure out EXACTLY what 5.5d does or does not do and post
it here. Because Nicehash team is obviously not capable of it. Really
at this point all we need to know is exactly what 5.5d does maliciously
if anything at all. Serious coder/devs/security experts should be the
only ones chiming in here and explaining what 5.5d does or doesn't do.

I guess the only questions that matter are:

1)Did nicehash incorporate the fake 5.5d phoenixminer?

2)Does the fake 5.5d phoenixminer contain a virus or trojan?
   And if so, what does it do to windows pcs? And why has no
   one reported any issues?


P.S. My thoughts on this is there probably is no malware or we would know it by now.
       Secondly it is VERY hard to inject malware in a closed miner without the source code,
       which the scammers would not have.  To me the worst thing they could have done
      (but good for their pocket books), is to hex edit replace phoenixminer devs address
      with their address, so they would get the 1% mining fee instead of the real dev.
       While this is obviously a problem, it wouldn't affect any users and wouldn't really be
      malware or a reason to wipe your PC. It would only be stealing from the real dev.
     and his hard work.  In any case, my guess is either there is no malware or an address
     replacement modification has been made. In either case I don't think anyone needs
      to wipe their PC. Just delete any phoenixminer entries on your drive, delete any registry
     entries labeled phoenixminer, and uninstall the plug in from nicehashminer until they
      publicly say it is safe to use again. I just don't buy into the NH theory that it could be
     a future ticking time bomb that steals all your bitcoin and passwords a year down the road.
     That would be EXTREMELY difficult to pull off and get around most av and anti-malware programs.

PhoenixMiner,

Thanks for the hard work and clarification. All the public needs to know is regardless of how NiceHash handled this,
is EVERY version of PhoenixMiner plugin that has been used or updated by nicehashminer safe and free of malware?
Or do nicehashminer users need to try and figure out what version of phoenixminer they are running and if it was
compromised? If no downloadable miners from the nicehash miner program was able to download the wrong or
compromised file, then I would say every nicehash user has nothing to worry about from Phoenixminer. Is this the
case? Because Nicehash is scaring people into wasting countless hours wiping their entire PCs and changing all
passwords. No one should need to do that unless nicehash miner software did truly incorporate a phoenix miner
plug in that wasn't yours. Please let us know your thoughts on this.

Thank you

Dead

Patrike, it is doing it a lot less now since the last update or pre-release update. I don't wake up with 30 boxes suspeneded anymore, sometimes one or two. Good work.

P.S. You probably know Nicehash (old) is going away the 10th. I am hoping they add some of the missing algos such as MTP from new that old had. In any case on the 10th I will just uncheck old nicehash from the profit switching unless you update it beforehand, might want to look into it and make sure all the apis and stratums for all the new nichehash are current, because I bet they change some on the 10th...

It was not running with Administratror privleges checked, I checked the box and will try after work  late today again. If that doesn't work I would try without AV, but not for long. It seems like it could be a windows thing because it makes the boxes suspended instead of closing them?

I am running it the same way I have for years, latest updates. Don't think it runs as admin mode, unless there is a setting in awesomeminer for that. Basically when it switches mining software/windows it leaves the old cmd window box and you can't click x to close it, it is NOT mining, but the new box is, and the only way to get rid of the tons of boxes is to end them from task manager. They are listed as conhost.exe and Suspended status.

PS. And it is weird because it is only doing it on my Ryzen machine, the Intel ones are not doing this. I added exceptions to Avast as I have been doing for years and never had this issue. I'm doing nothing different then before the last update, which didn't just do the small normal update, but had me actually re-install it?

Why is awesomeminer leaving a ton of mining windows open all of a sudden?

You have to go to task manager and manually close the conhosts?

Any fix?

Agreed, if you could have two nicehash profit switching spots, one you put in your old addy and the other your new addy and it treats them as two seperate pools. Of course you would have to re-benchmark everything so it doesn't get screwed up.

Patrike, I talked to NH. They said they are not supporting MTP right now with the new platform because it is too unstable, but they will consider it in the future. Seems like it never goes to MTP lately anyways, beam, grin, ect. are more profitable. But it would be nice to be in the rotation.

MTP seems to not connect at all to new Nicehash regardless of mining software??

Nice work as always Patrike, connecting to new Nicehash just fine now and testing.

Not all algos are connecting.
Cuckoocycle isn't, some cryptonnights aren't, and other algos as well. I think it depends on the mining software, different versions connect while others fail to connect to nicehash even with the same algo???

Hey Patrike, I've kinda been working with Nicehash's new platform to help iron out the bugs. It is now live and Awesome Miner I assume needs a new update because from their website:

Using 3rd pary miners, please be aware of the new stratum URL structure:

stratum+tcp://ALGO.LOCATION-new.nicehash.com:PORT

So they changed their stratum url structure, and I tried adding -new. and new. in the online services Url one by one (since bulk edit didn't seem to do what it sounds like), and I still could not get it to connect to them.
Could you please update Awesome Miner to Nicehash's new URL structure as many use it for Profit Switching.

Thanks for the great software and support over the years, top notch!

P.S. They are doing a transition phase (but won't say for how long) where the old mining stratums/addys still work, but the new site is up and recommends switching to the new site, new password, 2fa, and mining to your new address with the new stratum URL structure. Obviously it would be more difficult to put two Nicehash entries in Profit Switching, so I think you should just update the existing one to the new structure, as the old URL will be gone very soon.

It is very hard getting a rig with 6 card to work.

Does anyone know which pool in Awesome Miner is most profitable for Nvidia gpus lately?
Thanks

Is the pool dead?

The Matrix Reloaded wasn't very good.