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Why are there a bunch of folders with random characters for a name?

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I never noticed until now but there are a bunch of users with random characters at their names. https://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/individual_list.php?s= Some of the top users are like this. Are they bots from infected pcs? or am i missing something. 

LOOK AT MY NEW FLAG DESIGNS FOR PA AND VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE

LOOK AT MY FIRST BATCH OF DESIGNS HERE

 

 

 

 

 

4690K @ 4.5GHz

GTX 970 FTW

MSI Z97 PC MATE

Define R5 windowed

Cooler Master Seidon 240m

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

Kingston 120gb SSD

SanDisk 480Gb SSD

Seagate 1Tb Hard drive

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They are all from CureCoin, so I assume that is their CureCoin wallet ID.

PC: Ryzen 5-3600 / MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus / 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600 / MSI RTX 3070 Ventus 3x / Phanteks P400S / Gigabyte G34WQC 34" Curved Ultrawide

Laptop: Lenovo X230 / OS X 10.15 Hackintosh (OpenCore)

F@H ID: Paroxy777

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Yes those are their wallet hashes. I've noticed that last week as well. Only knew it because of the spam I am getting so I know how they look like.

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12 hours ago, Paroxy said:

They are all from CureCoin, so I assume that is their CureCoin wallet ID.

so cure coin is installing FAH or are they diverting computing power to fah because of the virus

LOOK AT MY NEW FLAG DESIGNS FOR PA AND VOTE ON YOUR FAVORITE

LOOK AT MY FIRST BATCH OF DESIGNS HERE

 

 

 

 

 

4690K @ 4.5GHz

GTX 970 FTW

MSI Z97 PC MATE

Define R5 windowed

Cooler Master Seidon 240m

EVGA SuperNOVA 650 G1

Kingston 120gb SSD

SanDisk 480Gb SSD

Seagate 1Tb Hard drive

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10 hours ago, SuperCookie78 said:

so cure coin is installing FAH or are they diverting computing power to fah because of the virus

Most cryptocurrencies today require expensive specialized ASIC computers to mine. 

 

CureCoin allows you to earn CureCoins by folding@home with an CPU/GPU -OR- by traditional mining with an ASIC.

PC: Ryzen 5-3600 / MSI MPG X570 Gaming Plus / 16GB (2x8GB) Corsair Vengeance LPX 3600 / MSI RTX 3070 Ventus 3x / Phanteks P400S / Gigabyte G34WQC 34" Curved Ultrawide

Laptop: Lenovo X230 / OS X 10.15 Hackintosh (OpenCore)

F@H ID: Paroxy777

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