Am I infected by Trojan Miner ?

[Katarina]

I ran a netstat on my machine and found a certain connection with a foreign address...

pool-108-51-140-90:14905

Does anyone know what is this ? Is it a mining pool where I am connected ?

Check your CPU usage, it should be really high like 60% and above if someone is mining on your computer..

Who would even still try and mine bitcoins with others CPU's.

Most trojan miner mine using CPU instead, cause everyone have a cpu and not GPU....

[DrG]

I ran a netstat on my machine and found a certain connection with a foreign address...

pool-108-51-140-90:14905

Does anyone know what is this ? Is it a mining pool where I am connected ?

Check your CPU usage, it should be really high like 60% and above if someone is mining on your computer..

Who would even still try and mine bitcoins with others CPU's.

People who have an automated script to go an infect multiple machines.  They don't need to manually control your machine, they can controls herds of machines - BOTNET.

Although botnets could probably make more money doing something other than mining.

[BitCoinDream]

I ran a netstat on my machine and found a certain connection with a foreign address...

pool-108-51-140-90:14905

Does anyone know what is this ? Is it a mining pool where I am connected ?

Check your CPU usage, it should be really high like 60% and above if someone is mining on your computer..

Who would even still try and mine bitcoins with others CPU's.

People who have an automated script to go an infect multiple machines.  They don't need to manually control your machine, they can controls herds of machines - BOTNET.

Although botnets could probably make more money doing something other than mining.

How can botnet make money except for participating in cyber crimes like DDOS ? One I heard is participating in CERN's grid computing. Do u know anything else ?

[mullerdan]

be careful sometimes its false positive

[cp1]

use netstat -tulpn to see what process owns it.

[HeroCat]

Save your valuable data on USB, use soft - kill disk, then make new Windows installation, after this check USB files with modern AV + antimalware + second AV soft

[elise]

i didnt know miners cant be infected with a trojan..

[AllTheBitz]

i didnt know miners cant be infected with a trojan..

Yeah happens all the time if you download stuff.

[Kluge]

i didnt know miners cant be infected with a trojan..

Yeah happens all the time if you download stuff.

Just having unprotected VNC server software's enough. Many GPU miners still use VNC for remote interfacing, and some programs actually restrict password length as low as 8 characters. Especially mining on dubious fly-by-night altcoin pools and putting your IP out there as someone who uses crypto, there're a good few risks many don't account for -- like, say you keep a hot wallet backup on a MS Homegroup-shared folder and have your mining PCs in the homegroup with read access to the backup. Someone doesn't need to brute force the PC with a wallet on it, they just need to get into one of the mining PCs and search the network for files.

[2double0]

I ran a netstat on my machine and found a certain connection with a foreign address...

pool-108-51-140-90:14905

Does anyone know what is this ? Is it a mining pool where I am connected ?

Check your CPU usage, it should be really high like 60% and above if someone is mining on your computer..

Who would even still try and mine bitcoins with others CPU's.

Back in 2012/13 people would spread viruses that mined on their behalf. I heard of someone making a few bits a day from this by infecting work computers. This was when diff was so much lower though.