Avira detected a virus from Minerd?

[shiunsai]

I was on the https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=83371.0 solo mining guide for litecoins, and when I downloaded the CPU miner, Avira detected a rogue.kdv.686001.1 virus, I deleted it and did not open minerd yet until I checked up on it, but has anyone else noticed that with the download? Thanks

[Foxpup]

Rogue.kdv.686001.1 is a false positive. Bitcoin and Litecoin miners in general (and minerd in particular) are often used in malware to steal other people's CPU cycles to mine coins for the attacker, and thus are flagged as malicious by some antivirus programs (if you have a miner running on your system that you didn't install yourself, that's bad). But if you installed minerd to mine coins for yourself (instead of someone else installing it to mine coins for themselves), you've got nothing to worry about, and you should probably get a better anitvirus program.

[shiunsai]

Alright thanks for the clarification, and haha dang i thought avira was okay to use. Do you have any you can recommend, I'm about to reformat my machine and then setup all my mining stuff clean.

[acc1dent]

You could simply set it to ignore the result

[shiunsai]

Yeah i set it to ignore it for obvious reasons but as far as virus software I was asking for a recommendation.

[foo]

I switched from Avira to Avast a few years back because of the ridiculous false positives.

[shiunsai]

oh wow, i used to have avast, guess i'll be switching back to that, was totally unaware of the high amount of false positives