How to start a hidden miner?

[albertorma]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

[nsummy]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

Here you go, don't get fired   http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_hideconsole.php

[Turanz]

im using this solution:

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "miner.exe",0,True

Save as filename.vbs and drag to startup windows folder

[JKresty]

A couple suggestions to be a bit more discreet.

- Rename the application files to something other than XMR Stak, something obscure and generic like "system" "netsys" etc.... so if noticed by someone it won't be a dead give away on a Google search of "xmr stak" or even worse they know what XMR is, mining is popular you'd be surprised who is doing it.

- Run it as a scheduled task off hours, don't get greedy *edit "owner"

- Make sure anti-virus doesn't flag the software, this is a sure way to bring attention to the PC and applications running on it.

- Mine local pools as to not generate out of the country traffic that will look suspicious if it is big enough network to have advanced firewalls and net security.

Good luck, happy mining.  

[dhouse]

lol you should probably tell your employees

[mshordja]

nice topic , i found it without search about it

[[YAZ]]

im using this solution:

CreateObject("Wscript.Shell").Run "miner.exe",0,True

Save as filename.vbs and drag to startup windows folder

I have tried the same, this is working perfectly. Don't forget to "super hide" the folder. And one important thing is, don't use all CPU resources, 50% it's enough.

[joblo]

It's not the "weird screen" that will worry employees, it's the mysterious process using so much CPU.
You're trying to run a program often identified as malware and trying to do it surrepticiously.
No, that won't raise any suspicion.

If you're really the owner you way overspent on your PCs if you can run a CPU miner without affecting
the primary task. Not the move of a smart business owner.

You will be found out by the employees, your deception will be exposed, and your integrity as a boss/owner damaged.

Or you're lying and just an employee trying to scam your boss.

Either way you're a lyer, but I say do it, and get caught. People like you need to be exposed.

[thebigjdoe]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

Here you go, don't get fired   http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_hideconsole.php

Get fired from the company he owns?

[Marvell2]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

Here you go, don't get fired   http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_hideconsole.php

Get fired from the company he owns?

lol he doesnt own it, if he owned it he would be damned about what the employees think about some 'wierd' screen haha

he probabaly just said that to keep people off his case

[thebigjdoe]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

To actually answer the question, use the task scheduler to run it "whether a user logs in or not" at every boot and it will not open a cmd window

[albertorma]

We have a lot of windows computers in the company I own. All of them with expensive and fast CPUs. Already did some calculations and even with a low CPU usage (0 impact in the tasks we need to do) It would be very profitable to mine!

I want to configure some cryptonight miners running in background (no screen, no terminal) so employees won't get worried about "that weird screen".

I tried autorunning a .bat with this code: START /B xmr-stak-cpu

However It's not what I wanted and reopens the miner immediately.

Any ideas about how should I do this?

Thanks in advance

Here you go, don't get fired   http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_hideconsole.php

This worked, thanks!

Also thanks turanz and joblo for your great ideas.

I am considering all your suggestions guys. Did not expect this amount of useful answers, you guys are a great community 

[YaStaer]

I use the job planner and run the miners on behalf of the user "system" when turning on the computer. You can also configure the BIOS to turn on the computer after a working day, and in the same scheduler turn it off before people come to work 

[percy_tc]

Minergate is not the best program but it has a console version which is well hidden.

[YaStaer]

Minergate is not the best program but it has a console version which is well hidden.

I use xmr-stak-cpu. Excellent miner for processors from Intel. It is easy to configure (knowing the amount of smartcash and the presence of AES) and antiviruses do not delete it.

[rapid821]

I made a version specifically for hidding (xmr-stak): https://github.com/rapid821/xmr-stak-hide/releases

[Xexen4]

minergate admin version running as a service. i tried it before and works as well.
https://minergate.com/downloads/console
also you can write a bat file for windows scheduled tasks to schedule specified times.

[Kahana82]

Something I did for convenience is create a service with NSSM (https://nssm.cc) to run the miner.
NSSM can be configured to keep the console hidden and has options for user, cup-priority and affinity and so on.

Then you could just create a scheduled task to start/stop the miner automatically when you would want it to run or not.
Just rename the exe of the miner and put it somewhere in the system files, as it will be shown in the task manager.


Just an idea: maybe more covert would be to do the mining through a web based miner and then include that in NSSM.
The user would only see a browser process in his task manager but would not be able to interact with the window (hidden).

[tg88]

Here you go, don't get fired   http://www.robvanderwoude.com/battech_hideconsole.php

Very cool, thanks for the tip;

[kineda]

Make sure you install it on your main sql server and everyone in accounting.  that one miner from russia stays pretty hidden