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Is PhoenixMiner from BitcoinTalk legit?

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I did a Microsoft Defender scan and it said it found "PUA:Win32/Presenoker"
Is that just something that Windows is mistakenly calling a threat or is this sketchy software?
I'm new to this stuff just wanna double check
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If you don't know what it is, just quarantine/remove it. Run Malwarebytes or something just to be sure it didn't leave anything behind.

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bruh switch to dark mode its at the bottom of this page

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-> Moved to Folding@Home, Boinc and Coin Mining

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Pretty much all miner software are malware in the eyes of your AV since they needs to get access to registry.

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Miners will always be flagged as malware. The bitcointalk forum is indeed the only official place to get PhoenixMiner. If you got it from their link on the main post it should be fine. If you got it from anywhere else, it may not be fine.

 

To my knowledge miners are typically reported as CoinMiners though, so you may want to double check here.

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