Scanned brothers computer yesterday, found 18 malware. All random numbers + letters .exes with american flag symbols as task icon. Ran a boot time scan and found four “Java:Bitcoin -A” trojans.
Did the same to my computer this morning, found nothing with the usual found but also found this bitcoin trojan on mine during the boot time scan.
From what I’ve read about it, all it does is act as a mining bot on infected machines. One thing I don’t understand is, it says it’s distributed with pirated software but I’m fairly certain everything on both computers is legit.
My main question is, should I be worried about changing passwords etc ?
Hi essexboy,
Both computers acted fine with the malware on. The only issue I’ve encountered is a heavy CPU usage on desktop startup, enough to freeze all tasks for up to 10-20 seconds. I’ve looked it up in resource manager and it just appears to be some issue with pagefile.sys, even though it’s limited to 4GB.
The only odd thing I’ve noticed is it calling up the task 7 or 8 times on my brothers computer, whereas it hasn’t even tried to connect to the internet on mine (according to zonealarm anyhow).
The one I posted was my computer which had the single trojan and no net connectivity attempts, I can provide logs for the other computer with the 4 trojans + connectivity if you want.