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.
File details of most used file with name "cgminer.exe"
- Product:
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- Description:
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- MD5:
- eedf9d5b3f2ccf830b4fb0e4c1631cbe
- SHA1:
- 4c2b497eb5b02bffe0c4c6973197b392978f6b4e
- SHA256:
- 05b3acb578caf5b92a8d39f2ab4140b282f3675045e27321ba3a6580f3e7fcd8
- Size:
- 528398
- Directory:
- %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\Downloads\bitcoin\cgminer
- Operating System:
- Windows 8
- Occurence:
- Medium
Is the Process "cgminer.exe" Safe or Threat ?
User Reviews of the "cgminer.exe"
Reviews for all files with name "cgminer.exe"
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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.
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THREATrating from user Xelormos for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe
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THREATrating from user demski for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe
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SAFErating from user boogie for file %DESKTOP%\cgminer-2.11.3-win32\cgminer.exe
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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.
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SAFErating from user hsmiths for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\Downloads\bitcoin\cgminer\cgminer.exe
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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.
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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.
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SAFErating from user Samuel Smith for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe
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SAFErating from user Samuel Smith for file %SystemDiskRoot%\DATA\cgminer\cgminer.exe (Variant: 16720090)
A bitcoin miner app