What is the "cgminer.exe" ?

Our database contains 74 different files for filename cgminer.exe . You can also check most distributed file variants with name cgminer.exe. Agregate rating is 4(4) stars - based on 18 reviews.This is executable file. You can find it running in Task Manager as the process cgminer.exe.

This small application is a bitcoin miner (GPU miner written in C), from the creator's pages : 

"This is a multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and CPU miner with ATI GPU monitoring, (over)clocking and fanspeed support for bitcoin and derivative coins".

- check more info on https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer#readme

By most antiviruses such applications are marked as possible threat, in this case not-a-virus: RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner.

cgminer.exe Process

File details of most used file with name "cgminer.exe"

Product:
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Company:
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Description:
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Version:
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MD5:
eedf9d5b3f2ccf830b4fb0e4c1631cbe
SHA1:
4c2b497eb5b02bffe0c4c6973197b392978f6b4e
SHA256:
05b3acb578caf5b92a8d39f2ab4140b282f3675045e27321ba3a6580f3e7fcd8
Size:
528398
Directory:
%SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\Downloads\bitcoin\cgminer
Operating System:
Windows 8
Occurence:
Medium oc1

Is the Process "cgminer.exe" Safe or Threat ?

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73% of reviewed files are marked as Safe .
Latest new variant of the file with name "cgminer.exe" was discovered 4009 days ago. Our database contains 8 variants of the file "cgminer.exe" with final rating Safe and 4 variants with final rating Threat . Final ratings are based on file reviews, discovered date, users occurence and antivirus scan results.

User Reviews of the "cgminer.exe"

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Reviews for all files with name "cgminer.exe"

  • THREATrating from user Merywell for file %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\50Miner (1)\50Miner\Miners\Cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 18624350)

    В файле 50miner.zip, скачанном на сайте 50btc.com, после проверки на http://virustotal.com на вирусы было обнаружено очень много вирусов. в том числе и cgminer.exe определился как вирус.

  • THREATrating from user Xelormos for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exeflag pl

  • THREATrating from user demski for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exeflag de

  • SAFErating from user boogie for file %DESKTOP%\cgminer-2.11.3-win32\cgminer.exe

  • SAFErating from user hsmiths for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\Downloads\bitcoin\cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 18788701)

    this is a bitcoin miner, downloaded from the author. false positive due to malware authors bundling in payloads. not a risk as long as you intended to install it.

  • SAFErating from user hsmiths for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\Downloads\bitcoin\cgminer\cgminer.exe

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %USERPROFILE%\Downloads\50Miner (1)\50Miner\Miners\Cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 18624350)

    This small application is a bitcoin miner (GPU miner written in C), from the creator's pages : "This is a multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and CPU miner with ATI GPU monitoring, (over)clocking and fanspeed support for bitcoin and derivative coins". - check more info on https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer#readme By most antiviruses such applications are marked as possible threat, in this case not-a-virus: RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner.

  • SAFErating from user MikeOne for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 17323271)

    This small application is a bitcoin miner (GPU miner written in C), from the creator's pages : "This is a multi-threaded multi-pool GPU, FPGA and CPU miner with ATI GPU monitoring, (over)clocking and fanspeed support for bitcoin and derivative coins". By most antiviruses such applications are marked as possible threat, in this case not-a-virus: RiskTool.Win32.BitCoinMiner.

  • SAFErating from user Samuel Smith for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe

  • SAFErating from user Samuel Smith for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 16720090)

    A bitcoin miner app