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[turtlehurricane]

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[dreamspark]

Interesting. I would imagine that a mining botnet would be quite expensive to rent as unlike a ddos botnet people will notice that their PC is freezing and a weird process is is eating up cpu. These people could then re install their OS so I would imagine that the botnet owners charge a premium for renting one.

This also means that the operation has to be worth the cost in the first place, from what I can see it doesnt seem massively profitable unless you hold and the coin rises in value.

[Massimo80]

"Some botnets install mining hardware"

I'd love if some computer virus gave me free hardware...

[bitcasino]

Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer?
Malwarebytes?

[goxcraft]

"Some botnets install mining hardware"

I'd love if some computer virus gave me free hardware...

Optimists will always get benefits

[turvarya]

Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer?
Malwarebytes?

There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.

[dreamspark]

Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer?
Malwarebytes?

There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.

Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance.

[turvarya]

Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer?
Malwarebytes?

There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.

Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance.

So, take one of the thousands of AntiVirus/-Malware Boot-CDs/whatever.
Wouldn't I see it, when my anti-Virus Programm is disabled?

[dreamspark]

Interesting and also worrying..
How to detect and remove a botnet virus from a computer?
Malwarebytes?

There are so many Antivir and Anti-Malware-Programs out there. Just choose one.

Not going to be too effective, most botnets will disable anti virus and spyware. Couple that with constantly changing binaries and a large portion of antivirus software wont stand a chance.

So, take one of the thousands of AntiVirus/-Malware Boot-CDs/whatever.
Wouldn't I see it, when my anti-Virus Programm is disabled?

Yes in that case if it was simply turning it off you would see it but there are other ways of disabling anitvirus' without just turning it off. The main defence by botnet operators is more in the second half of what I said in regards to changing binaries, multiple types of malware and general slowness of some antivirus vendors to update their definitions. Not really the place to start talking about techniques etc but some googling will bring up some articles such as this;

https://blog.damballa.com/archives/374