When attacked by a miner virus, a Trojan horse will be transferred onto your mining machine. This allows the attacker to take control of your device and steal hashrate.
Typical symptoms of an attack include:
- Inability to enter the miner’s backoffice.
- Your mining address and worker name have been altered
- The mining device intermittently disconnects from the network, goes offline, and restarts in a short period of time.
- Inability to upgrade the firmware
- Hashrate decreases or falls to zero
Ways to Avoid Miner Viruses:
- When purchasing used hardware, swipe the card and perform network isolation prior to use
- Keep your firmware updated and change your miner login credentials often
- Avoid the use of any unofficial overclocking firmware
- Steer clear of any suspicious websites
- Only use official secure firmware
Antivirus Removal Method:
- Perform network isolation
- Contact the miner’s official support team to obtain the relevant anti-virus software
- Once you have the correct anti-virus software, follow the exact instructions to run the program
- Should the anti-virus program fail, use the card to swipe the machine
