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Is this scvhost.bat with cryptonight a virus or miner?

I have just found this .bat file that was named scvhost.bat. The file had this content in it : scvhost -a cryptonight -o stratum+tcp://xmr-eu.dwarfpool.com:8005 -u…
NewbieProgrammer
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No boot with 4+ GPUs

I have a build intended for mining. I'm using Ubuntu 16.04. My specs are as follows: mobo: ASUS TUF Z270 Mark 1 LGA1151 CPU: Intel Pentium dual core G4600 3.6 LGA 1151 GHz RAM: (2x) Patriot Memory Viper Elite Series DDR4 4GB 2400MHz PSU:…
Mecca Miles
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PSU power distribution problems for mining rig

I've built a GPU mining rig for mining altcoin cryptocurrencies (ethereum et al) and I'm having problems with what I believe is either my PSUs or my power distribution. The Hardware: 2 x Raidmax Cobra RX-700ae 80+ Gold 700W PSUs 1 x Intel Celeron…
Jacob R
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Why does recreation.gov use so much CPU? Bad design, or something more sinister?

I came back to my desktop in the morning after researching campgrounds the night before and noticed my desktop was cooking! Full fan speeds, etc. Assuming I had visited a website that had a GPU Miner installed, I started looking sorting through my…
Zach
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How to setup VPS to forward multiple IPs to a single static IP

Im running a bunch of crypto masternodes and I have a vpn so I can get a static IP for my local server machines (I have to do this because Im on cable internet which doesnt allow me to purchase static IPs). Currently if I want to run multiple…
Matthew
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Error when opening Minergate-gui on Debian 9

I'm trying to install Minergate-GUI on my Debian 9 to mine some coins. I downloaded the Minergate-GUI installation file MinerGate-xFast-GUI-1.5-ubuntu.deb (yes Ubuntu) from the official website and installed it using sudo dpkg -i…
Peter S
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How to clean crypto mining malware that infected my Amazon Linux EC2 server?

From last few days, I have noticed that applications running on my EC2 Linux instance are very slow. Running top command showed me that there is a process /var/tmp/sustse using most of the CPU. I killed that process. However, after rebooting the…
Povam
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Can windows version affect a software's RAM and CPU usage?

I downloaded a software that uses simple D3D drawings overlayed on my computer screen. I noticed that the software was using an unreasonable amount of my RAM (about 8GB of RAM) and CPU (40% of my CPU). This led me to suspect that the software was…
Joonki
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Do I have a GTX 1050 or a GTX 1050 Ti

When I bought my laptop, they (the store) said that it has a GTX 1050 with 4 gigs of memory. My friend pointed out that only a GTX 1050 Ti has 4 gigs of memory. Furthermore, when I mine Ethereum in Nicehash, I can use the Daggerhashimoto algorithm…
MythicalCode_
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what is the message "P.S We are running a small javascript miner...." on blogspot

I have created a blog to share some important question and answers with my friends. But when I open the blogspot link on edge browser it shows some abnormal behavior like computer becoming very slow. screenshot from edge browser I don't know what…
Rohit Jha
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PCIe riser 1X-16X on a 16X socket from Motherboard - No input

I have a motherboard with a single 16X PCIe and two 1X PCIe sockets. To use with 3 gpu's. Motherboard Manual Im using 1X to 16X risers to use my gpus. On both 1X sockets risers with gpus work perfect and input is showing on the monitor. But whenever…
Flowen
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Mining ETH with AMD GPU Ubuntu 21.10

I want to mine ethereum with my gpu (rx580). After doing a bit of research, I found out that I need openCL and to get that I have to install the AMD gpu driver. Because I am on Ubuntu 21.10, the driver is not officially supported and when I tried…
konfrag
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Mining rig Batch file for closing unnecessary windows services

Ok so I am building a bat file that can automatically be executed when windows has finished loading to optimize my all my windows' based rigs for GPU mining. So far my bat file looks like this, is there anything more I could have added? ECHO…
Max Alexander Hanna
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Adding a Second GPU to my motherboard and Getting black screen on Startup

So, I tried connecting a second GPU, a GTX 1060 6GB to the second PCIEx16 slot via Riser cable USB in my MSI b550 Tomahawk mobo, and when I turn on my computer I just get a black screen and the VGA ez-debug light pops on, and can't get into the…
Colin
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Found a weird malware at weird location (Windows Defender -Detected : Trojan:BAT/MineBicoin.K & -Affected Item: boot:\\.\E:\)

I was using Ubuntu 20.04 (no dual boot) and after that I installed Official Windows 10 2020 version (even checked sha256sum of the iso file it was genuine) and then after it booted (partition remade and it was brand new fresh install, except my…
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