CGminer = Virus

[InteraSys]

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/

[-ck]

This has happened numerous times in the past when cgminer was a cpu and gpu miner as it was packed with trojans and was the innocent bystander included with the virus itself. Since cgminer only mines with ASIC hardware now there isn't anything it can do to your computer even if it's included in this way any more.

Provided you have downloaded from the official cgminer repository then it's not a virus and definitely a false positive.

[philipma1957]

Same thing happened to me running windows 10.  started last night.

I had to go back and look at all my windows 10 updates since the 30th. of aug.

I uninstalled them and I am now running my two sidehack sticks 0 issues.

The windows defender was so aggressive it ended the program and then deleted the entire cgminer 4.92 program.

Took me a few hours to figure it out. So now I have no windows updates on my pc since aug 18th.

This pc is 100% mining with no important info on it.


truly annoying shit

So if anyone is having an issue  with it getting wasted and poofed look into rolling back your windows 10 installs

[CrytpoMira]

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/

There has been an increase of machines coming into my shop infected and doing mining for the perps lately. It's a shame, really.

[-ck]

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/

There has been an increase of machines coming into my shop infected and doing mining for the perps lately. It's a shame, really.

Are you implying this binary of cgminer is being used for such a purpose? Impossible as it won't mine on your CPU or GPU.

[Kapz786]

Same problem Windows 10

Just go into Windows Defender settings and add cgminer.exe to exlusions list

[os2sam]

It's not a Windoze version problem.  It's a Security Essentials/Windows Defender problem.  I got the same thing with WinVista and Micro$oft Security Essentials.

[MarketNeutral]

Don't confuse malicious mining software with cgminer.

cgminer only mines with ASIC hardware, not CPU or GPU.

And if for some strange reason you're running some ancient version of cgminer, then a virus scanner may indicate a false positive.

And always download from the correct repository.

Or compile it yourself from source.

[kampretkabur]

where is the official place to downoad the cgminer?

[os2sam]

where is the official place to downoad the cgminer?

The link is in the top post of this thread.

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=28402.msg357369#msg357369

[bimasena25]

whether the type of virus contained in the software and
how it impacts our computer system?

[Kapz786]

whether the type of virus contained in the software and
how it impacts our computer system?

There is no virus... its being picked up as one by windows

[wwwin]

This has happened numerous times in the past when cgminer was a cpu and gpu miner as it was packed with trojans and was the innocent bystander included with the virus itself. Since cgminer only mines with ASIC hardware now there isn't anything it can do to your computer even if it's included in this way any more.

Provided you have downloaded from the official cgminer repository then it's not a virus and definitely a false positive.

Yes, only download from official repository if you are using computer to mine, but who does that now.

[jmintuck02]

Thank you. I have windoze 10 and it didn't go poof yet. Good job I read this before it would, eventually.

[DanielRo]

It's not a Windoze version problem.  It's a Security Essentials/Windows Defender problem.  I got the same thing with WinVista and Micro$oft Security Essentials.

Almost any software company has "genius software developers". This king of genius people are making virus signatures starting from a virus (trojan, worm, keylogger and so on). If they make a bad virus signature it is called false positive. It's their fault. In this case Microsoft fault.

[danieluk9]

It's not a Windoze version problem.  It's a Security Essentials/Windows Defender problem.  I got the same thing with WinVista and Micro$oft Security Essentials.

Almost any software company has "genius software developers". This king of genius people are making virus signatures starting from a virus (trojan, worm, keylogger and so on). If they make a bad virus signature it is called false positive. It's their fault. In this case Microsoft fault.

Eh it happens, report it as a false positive and let's hope for the best

[freedomno1]

It really does depend on where you download CGMiner from
That said if its avast even from the source it complained about it (lol), just because of all those mining trojans a while back.
Anyways make sure your source is clean and you will be fine.
(Still running 7 not sure if 10 changed it's detection to false positive it)