Not sure if someone here can build a botnet of bitcoin miner slaves?
Uploading new executable to already existing botnet? Why not?
Imagine you have 1000 slaves in the network and each only run on CPU at 5MH/s ....
Actually there are more slaves and most of them are less than 5MH/s Probably my slaves are niggers
Always make sure antivirus is up-to-date.
You can't even rely on antivirus software because you could get hit before the software knows they exist. I'm not happy storing mine 'hot' at all....
This is why bots are crypted to make them fully undetectable by antivirus software. When executed they kill the antivirus software to avoid future problems.
Check the executables in every way possible BEFORE running them. Hashes of files, digital signatures, PGP, different mirrors hosting them. Don't run any "super ultra extra system optimizer free edition" or similar scam. Brains of human operator are better than any antivirus.
