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First I tried GUIMiner-scrypt and then cgminer-3.9.0-windows.zip
Both archives are marked as malicious in Google Chrome. I googled and have not found articles about that. Do other people get such warnings while downloading miner?
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My links are 2 top google results
@TinS gave another download link and file is name is same guiminer-scrypt_win32_binaries_v0.04.zip but size is different.
One file is marked as malicious by Google Chrome and another not.
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Don't worry, Google has added this feature into Chrome : http://www.pcworld.com/article/2059579/googles-chrome-will-automatically-block-malware.html
But it seems that sometimes Chrome marked as malicious something which is not. If you have downloaded it from the official website you don't have to worry.
If you want to be sure you can get a checksum of the file (there is not the checksum on the official page so just ask someone you trust).
I know this feature. But there is still a risk that some redirect done by some admin who works on my ISP who tries to put malware on miners PC. If it is a mistake then every other user will get error notification as me and I expect to see it all over internet but I google and have not found people complaining on such issue. – Max – 2014-01-23T16:26:09.227
What about the checksum ? If it's the correct checksum you can be sure it's only your Chrome. – Nontenda – 2014-01-23T16:59:43.240
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There are many reasons why to Google Chrome appears some files as malicious e.g.
But as main reason we can consider not using SSL certificates or https url.
Even though you can discard this pop-up and download the file I would recommend you to scan it through antivirus program.
From my experience I can say that the cg-miner is safe to use! :)
1I think the tag "malware" covers it sufficiently and we don't need a "malicious" tag additionally. – Murch – 2014-01-23T13:27:31.203
Google Chrome tells
maliciousI addedmalwaremyself just because there is such tag. – Max – 2014-01-23T16:22:24.103That's exactly what I meant: "malware" by itself is recognizable and descriptive. On the other hand I don't see how "malicious" could ever stand as the only tag of a question, as it could refer to anything. – Murch – 2014-01-23T17:31:27.360
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The first site has fine print that says says "This site is not the official page of the software." I'd be very suspicious of that download. https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=150331.0 seems to be a more reputable place.
– Tim S. – 2014-01-23T18:33:40.033The one I downloaded from your link is not marked as malware. My links are top results in google and google mark then as suspicious. Also virustotal give 18 warnings
@TimS. Thanks
2I'd bet the reason Chrome marks it as malicious is the same some anti-viruses mark scrypt miners as malicious: since scrypt can be mined with CPU, botnets galore attach a CPU-scrypt-miner as payload to put the computers they control to mine for their manager... – Joe Pineda – 2014-01-24T01:34:11.940