F-Secure treats cgminer and bfgminer as threats?

gbstack

When I tried to run cgminer or bfgminer, F-Secure will blocked its running.

but cgminer and bfgminer are both open source bitcoin mining softwares.

cgminer download link: ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.3/cgm...3.0-windows.zip
bfgminer download link: luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/fi...10.10-win32.zip

 

 

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gbstack

Sorry, the download links I provided before is not complete, following are correct links:

 

cgminer download link: ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer/3.3/cgminer-3.3.0-windows.zip

bfgminer download link: luke.dashjr.org/programs/bitcoin/files/bfgminer/2.10.10/bfgminer-2.10.10-win32.zip

 

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Hailan

Hi gbstack,

 

After downloading both of those files and extracting them they were detected as viruses and quarantined? Is this what happened to you?

 

Could you elaborate more on what you mean by "F-Secure will blocked its running.", did you mean:

 

 1: The programs are detected as a virus and removed/quarantined?

 2: The application gets blocked when it is executed/launched?

 

I have sent the files to be analyzed by our malware experts and will update you with the details once the analysis is complete.

 

 

Thanks

 

Hailan

Hi,

 

Our laboratory has advised us that both files are clean, as in not malware, however that they are currently marked as Riskware due to the nature of the files. The detection will remain because we have seen malware bundling Bitcoin miners to create botnets.

 

They have also advised us that you had already opened a tkt with them the :T982892 and that they had already explained this to you as well as providing you the details on how to exclude these from RTS(real time scanning).

 

Hope we were able to shed appropriate light on this matter for you.

 

Thanks