An unwanted guest?
Posted: 28 Aug 2013, 21:01
Hi Chaps
I took a saunter from Brunters this morning in FSX using a Ju52. Nothing much happening.. poodling along at around 135kts/5000ft. The intention was to make my way down to GCI but SWMBO got up (off nights) so I landed at the nearest airfield.. Exeter. Around 10mins before this, I noticed the FR's starting to fluctuate culminating in a 3-4fps stutter
I was goofing outside the aircraft at the time so quickly nipped inside and the stutter disappeared. A few mins later, off it went again.. lots of HD thrashing around and the FR's dropped to 4fps once more. I changed the zoom and was able to land.
I dunno what made me look but I opened Task Manager to see WTF was going on. My usual 40-odd processes were present but 1 caught my eye that appeared to be hogging the CPU (50) called btc-miner.exe. I sat for what seemed ages waiting for the CPU load to drop (a-n-other process was hogging 47 or so CPU useage) but it remained at almost 100%. A quick check online to see what btc-miner.exe might be has me confused no end. Google referenced BitCoin-Miner as a program and a virus/Trojan but I actually didn't find anything for btc-miner.exe. A search using 'FIND' found 2 references on my HD living in C:\WINDOWS\.. one in prefetch dated 28.8.13 - BTC-MINER.EXE-055E955C.PF and btc-miner.exe in dfrg dated 25.8.13. Despite dire warnings, I stopped btc-miner.exe in task manager and my CPU use dropped immediately.
I then ran a full virus scan of C:\WINDOWS and watched MSE gladly accept btc-miner.exe (though it did pause). Does anyone know what the hell it is? If it's a Trojan, MSE isn't phased by it
I restarted Windows some time later and flashed up FSX with Task Manager running and flew around until btc-miner appeared or the FR's started dropping and all worked normally
Now.. some while later, I've returned to the pc and flicked Task Manger on and there was btc-miner running again. I immediately stopped it and my cpu is wafting along at 0-1% while I'm here online. Should I panic or is this a bonafide program? If it is.. why the hell does it seem to hog so much CPU time
ATB
DaveB![Cool Smoke B)smk](./images/smilies/025.gif)
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I took a saunter from Brunters this morning in FSX using a Ju52. Nothing much happening.. poodling along at around 135kts/5000ft. The intention was to make my way down to GCI but SWMBO got up (off nights) so I landed at the nearest airfield.. Exeter. Around 10mins before this, I noticed the FR's starting to fluctuate culminating in a 3-4fps stutter
![shock :-O](./images/smilies/shock.gif)
I dunno what made me look but I opened Task Manager to see WTF was going on. My usual 40-odd processes were present but 1 caught my eye that appeared to be hogging the CPU (50) called btc-miner.exe. I sat for what seemed ages waiting for the CPU load to drop (a-n-other process was hogging 47 or so CPU useage) but it remained at almost 100%. A quick check online to see what btc-miner.exe might be has me confused no end. Google referenced BitCoin-Miner as a program and a virus/Trojan but I actually didn't find anything for btc-miner.exe. A search using 'FIND' found 2 references on my HD living in C:\WINDOWS\.. one in prefetch dated 28.8.13 - BTC-MINER.EXE-055E955C.PF and btc-miner.exe in dfrg dated 25.8.13. Despite dire warnings, I stopped btc-miner.exe in task manager and my CPU use dropped immediately.
I then ran a full virus scan of C:\WINDOWS and watched MSE gladly accept btc-miner.exe (though it did pause). Does anyone know what the hell it is? If it's a Trojan, MSE isn't phased by it
![Dunno :dunno:](./images/smilies/102.gif)
I restarted Windows some time later and flashed up FSX with Task Manager running and flew around until btc-miner appeared or the FR's started dropping and all worked normally
![banging head off wall :wall:](./images/smilies/eusa_wall.gif)
![Dunno :dunno:](./images/smilies/102.gif)
ATB
DaveB
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