Is my PC associated with Bitmining botnet?

[Brien]

I am aware of what bitcoins are, but I do not use nor farm them. Today after looking at my startup items on my PC, I noticed there was a strange entry that I will put below. Upon further research, Me, or my PC, is associated with a bitcoin ID http://eligius.st/~artefact2/7/1GsrNGM64zfyKec37miLh655KKQeGX91cg. Supposedly his bitrate is near 5000mh/s.

Is it safe to say that that is not an achieveable number under 1 PC's standard? I'm just making sure because I do not remember installing anything bitcoin related and believe I have downloaded an infected file that is using my PC to farm.


Entry is below


C:\Users\Null\AppData\Roaming\2 3\j.exe "%appdata%\2 3\svchost.exe" -o http://mining.eligius.st:8337 -u 1GsrNGM64zfyKec37miLh655KKQeGX91cg -p x

[John (John K.)]

You are a part of the botnet. Eligius allows many computers to connect as one address, so the ~5GHs should be from around 10 PC's. I'll PM Luke-JR and ask him to take a look.

[Brien]

Yeah, I assumed so. Anyway, the file directory and process has been deleted but just to be safe I have to fresh install now, since I'm most likely backdoored.

[5850Guy]

Yeah, I assumed so. Anyway, the file directory and process has been deleted but just to be safe I have to fresh install now, since I'm most likely backdoored.

You might want to consider a reformat.

You never know what other nasty stuff you might have on there now.

[5850Guy]

Yeah, I assumed so. Anyway, the file directory and process has been deleted but just to be safe I have to fresh install now, since I'm most likely backdoored.

You might want to consider a reformat.

You never know what other nasty stuff you might have on there now.

Ah, whoops!  Missed the fact that you re-installed!

Good job!  A fresh install is a pain, but always a good security decision!

[Luke-Jr]

Recently added to Eligius's FAQ: Help! I'm infected with a virus using your service!