NiceHash Possible malware.

[Josh_Black06]

I started mining today and its been going pretty well. I'm on quick miner and windows 64bit with a 3070 and a 3700x. When mining my antivirus, malware bytes, kept finding something called Bitcoin.Trojan.Miner.DDS. (it has found it 3 times so far) When I click on it it takes me to a website, (that is also blocked) Called bitcoinera.club which looks like a scam crypto trading site. Does anyone know what this is and what to do about it? Tried to post on reddit but both website and mobile seemed down.

[Kilrah]

Read the doc when you download it, miners are always picked up as malware and it instructs you on setting exclusions.

[Josh_Black06]

8 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Read the doc when you download it, miners are always picked up as malware and it instructs you on setting exclusions.

which doc? I literally started today so if I ask dumb questions please just bear with me.

[Kilrah]

https://www.nicehash.com/blog/post/how-to-add-nicehash-miner-folder-to-windows-defender-exclusion

 

When I downloaded it last it was pretty prominently warning about this issue and guiding to that page. 

[Josh_Black06]

Oh, I thought that was for the actual download, when I tried to download in the past, it blocked the miner. I have already been mining and have Bitcoin from nice hash, this pops up while mining.

 

[Kilrah]

Yeah, you'll need to exclude it in malwarebytes as well.

[Josh_Black06]

Are they the same thing? I didn't need to exclude the excavator and i have seen the excavator mining, when I'm mining the threat appears randomly and it seems separate from nice hash although it is in the files.

[Kilrah]

Well you should look at what it says is infected and whether it's in the nicehash folders or somewhere else, it might be completely unrelated.