How to start a hidden miner?

[asder250]

Do not forget that as soon they will realize that, you can get into big troubles - it is a crime and you can go to the jail. Would you risk it for few dollars?

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[mojoxc]

One hint on how fast detection happens on a miner in a business that is properly secured is an alert happens within 5 seconds of the miner being attempted to execute and the miner is not able to execute, so you lose your job over zero profit.  Considering the cost of the job loss the math turns to a loss for attempting this at work.

 

[calandra78]

Check task manager

anyone don't know what task manager program running when have hidden job working by miner. when miner work with web, we can look at task manager process mozilla or chrome cpu high over 90-100%. there is hard for looking for hidden software mining name when not running on browser and task manager prosesing not detected

[JaredKaragen]

One hint on how fast detection happens on a miner in a business that is properly secured is an alert happens within 5 seconds of the miner being attempted to execute and the miner is not able to execute, so you lose your job over zero profit.  Considering the cost of the job loss the math turns to a loss for attempting this at work.

 

you clearly overlooked the fact that a vpn is a typical solution to staying anonymous....  [and i'm not here to nitpick on hypotheticals]

I know this works even today, because I installed several miners at [insert silicon valley corporate company's name here] on a rack designated for his department.... and they have strict rules as well.

[lobat999]

Jesus! can everyone just shut up about this now.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.

It maybe to early to conclude any hypothesis or  scenario but I hope the OP might appreciate any unsolicited advice he / she could get from the community that could possibly save him / her from any trouble. I think we as members of this community should have a little bit of social responsibility and should give importance to the welfare of others too. Imho.

[GREENch]

Jesus! can everyone just shut up about this now.
The OP asked a question, and it has been answered. The OP did not ask for peoples legal or moral opinions on this subject.
There are lots of legitimate reasons why you wouldn't want a console showing on the desktop.
So can everyone stop making assumptions and stick to answering questions with based on your technical knowledge and not what the ten commandments say.

Maybe TS got an answer to his question, but that does not mean that people can not continue to debate on this topic. If we have this theme the there is no sense create themes with similar specificity. We can talk about it here.

[martychubbs]

Good thinking! i am about to start the same thing. as far as i worked out, you have to figure out general awareness in your company about this subject. some may don't even know what it is. then you should to work with antivirus so it won't destroy your plans and then give to the files different names so even if it's detected it wouldn't be considered as suspicious.

[r32godzilla]

Installing a mining program requires an admin rights, do you have these rights? And are you sure that every windows profile (you are talking about company) will run your program automatically? 

[suprnurd]

You'll want to properly test this when there are no employees present - one thing to consider is that when ALL computer systems are running and drawing a lot of power depending on how your building was wired up this may present power draw issues... It happened to me where I would pop the breakers and the whole floor would go down... pretty embarassing to deal with.

Another thing to consider is the heat - if the room heats up significantly when the equipment is mining then it's best to have everything power down several hours before employees return otherwise you may get complaints.

[Galantin]

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

Yes, then you come to the store to buy a computer. And there such guys mine on them killing all the processes. Great idea. Let the office go broke. Let employees work slower. The main thing to install on account computers. What would all the bulhattery burn in case of anything)

[carlfebz2]

Installing a mining program requires an admin rights, do you have these rights? And are you sure that every windows profile (you are talking about company) will run your program automatically? 

You would really require admin rights but basing on his statement he do able to set-it up on his own office pc so it would be possible to be put up on other pc's as well yet majority of them would have the same set-up since this is a company this isnt a personal pc on your own that you can freely set personal passwords or customize it.Starting a hidden miner?It wont really be worth if the company caught you,those small satoshi earnings wont be enough for you to bail when you are imprisoned.

[starkovblue]

Usually such miners use hackers.
I am against such methods of earning at the expense of other people and organizations.

[Rakly3]

google
run exe as service

for windows that is, and having admin rights. Also make sure you allow it through the firewall.
Click the Start button and type firewall
then select windows defender firewall WITH Advanced Security.
in the left hand columns you can pick inbound and outbound.
If you really own the PC's you could set up SSH and/or API and allow inbound.
If you don't own them, you'll just let the admin know where/who you are

[Temido2222]

Are they domain joined? Maybe you can push something out via GPO? Task schedular seems to be your best bet, start maybe 6pm and end at 8am. godspeed OP