Hi,
When I tried to run cgminer, “TROJAN HORSE BLOCKED” dialog from avast will show
but cgminer is a popular open source bitcoin mining software.
cgminer download link: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.3/cgminer-3.3.0-windows.zip
Hi,
When I tried to run cgminer, “TROJAN HORSE BLOCKED” dialog from avast will show
but cgminer is a popular open source bitcoin mining software.
cgminer download link: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.3/cgminer-3.3.0-windows.zip
You are lucky, it doesnt even allow me to download it now!
Site is blacklisted and/or malware present.
See https://www.virustotal.com/en/url/d672ae5aeff0b5e7501ffa3439c74aa1354ff1d9d94bf9292af6d244df43b6e8/analysis/
And http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/results/ck.kolivas.org
This is a false positive. Why do you not research things for yourself instead of relying on other sites?
There is a legitimate use for this program, but because certain corporations (you for example) want to keep certain technologies down and think up and coming virtual communities are nefarious, you block it.
another conspiracy theory :
Not a conspiracy if its true. There have been reports of major banks blocking transactions dealing with bitcoin purchases or sales and saying it is an illegal currency. There have been reports of companies blocking websites dealing with bitcoin saying they’re illegal enterprises.
You even have government officials saying bitcoins are only used by people for drugs, child porn, illegal weapons, etc.
So, please, tell me how its a conspiracy?
at best riskware / PUP
kaspersky. http://www.securelist.com/en/descriptions/old102855
Programs classified as NetTool are designed to work with a network (for example, remotely rebooting a computer, scanning open network ports, remotely launching random applications, etc.). These features allow cyber criminals use them for malicious purposes, although the programs themselves are not malicious.
BTW, it’s not just CGMiner either. BFMiner, other miners are all linked to this sort of false positive. Even when I compile it myself after having gone through the code.
I think the issue is that since there are snippets of open source code being used that IS used in some trojans, its falsely flagging it. It even flags the uncompiled code, which is not even executable.
https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer/blob/master/diablo130302.cl as an example which is reported as such: https://www.virustotal.com/en/file/0b014f0ca49ca92e3c4bd6fff0d718fdb5a96f7699aa4dd1c67f09d562221fda/analysis/
This same program has been continously submitted as a false positive but it is never taken care of.
Here: http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/
If you know programming, go through the source code yourself and see what you find. Compile it yourself and see what you find. It’s a false positive. Because some hackers are packaging it with their trojans and such, it gets flagged as well. That is akin to saying everyone that wears blue is a crip and banning them from a sports stadium.
Or that’s like flagging Folding@Home as malware because one person injected one .exe with malware one time and everyone has to pay the price.