cr1pcr0n1x banned

[ye olde ruiner]

My friend contacted me and wanted me to leave this here.

"You could of at least checked the program to see if it was safe before banning me, i've been a member for 5 years now and never had any misdealings. Mining for bitcoins is legitimate and i have provided proof below that the program is safe.

Inside ducks.zip the only file is guiminer.exe , a bitcoin mining platform. You can find information about guimining.exe in the first link. The second link is to the website that hosts this platform."


http://systemexplorer.net/file-database/file/guiminer-exe

http://mining.bitcoin.cz/

 

Meh, I'm not really knowledgeable about this, can someone who knows about bitcoin mining post on this?

Looking around I did see that it might be harmful:

Some malware also uses the parallel processing capabilities of the GPUs built into many modern-day video cards. In mid August 2011, Bitcoin miner botnets were found; trojans infecting Mac OS X have also been uncovered.

 

[malakadang]

Mining for bitcoins is perfectly legitimate and non-malicious.

@Wulfspade, your wikipedia quote does not show that mining bitcoins is 'harmful', but rather people have infected others for the purposes of mining bitcoins.

I downloaded the file, and it seems non-malicious. This entire case seems to be a misunderstanding (stimulus generalisation).

I won't unban just yet in case I've made a mistake. I've referred Wulfspade to this, and recommended that you be unbanned.

 

Thanks Malakadang, you can request an unban for him.

 

[malakadang]

Alright.

Requested an unban; your friend should be unbanned in a day or 2.