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March 31, 2013, 08:32:46 PM |
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We have 2 problems here.
1) A lot of BTC mining softwares have been falsely identified as viruses in the past. For example, CGMiner used to have issues with a number of antivirus softwares, and was a false positive. Luckily, CGMiner is open source, so people can build from source and verify that there is nothing malicious going on in the background.
Related to this note: I previously ran my BTC client (on a separate computer that I mine on) with the default 8 connections. I forwarded port 8332, and went up to about 30 connections. Within a week, I got a letter from my ISP warning me that one of my computers had been infected with a botnet. Seems Comcast doesn't like the increase in network activity.
2) Unlike CGMiner, 50BTC miner is NOT open source. There is no way to prove that there really isn't anything malicious going on. For all we know, it really could be a bank information stealer or a keylogger or something. The source code for 50BTC miner has been requested, but those requests have been denied.
Safest option: switch to CGMiner, which can still be used with the 50BTC pool and website. If CGMiner is too complicated for you (like the thought of a command line or terminal scares you), then switch to BitMinter pool and mining software. They have a nice, easy to use program that also works with most GPUs and FPGAs. They have said they will also work with ASICs, too.
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