The cryptominer is called Unarchiver.exe located at C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Roaming\unarchiver. THIS PROGRAM INSTALLED ON THE EXACT TIME AND DATE AS MY THE SIMS 4!! So without doubt this repack is the culprit. Also malwarebytes failed to detect this program as virus. To remove it you must open task scheduler and remove ContentManagement (which auto start this program every 15 minutes) and delete the program itself.
If you ever installed anything from xGIROx, you might want to check your cpu usage during idle using afterburner (dont use task manager as i mention that this miner is smart enough to detect that). At the time i post this, that torrent i mention has 3653 active seeders (second most seeded sims 4 on 1337x now) so yeah thats bad for so many people.
And I'm sure making it persistent will not be too hard once I get more familiar with power shell and BB. The hardest part is getting past the AV products as all these miners are now added to the definitions regardless of whether you use them for legitimate purposes or not. Windows Defender didn't block the software...
Yeah, I have another script that installs a masked version of a Base64 EXE that runs to a proxy, that way you can move miners without having to reprogram the script.. But I'm a veteran Bitcoin/Altcoin Miner, plus was Staff for MinerGate.. so I personally can't recommend using this on PC's other then your own..
Well now you have me interested, I just got my BB. Modifying your script was my first little project. Would love to see your miner, I could learn a lot...I got a grasp on the foundation of the BB and most of the exploit frameworks, PS/VBS coding last night, but I'm new to most of this typically just do web/network development so I'm sure I made a lot of rookie mistakes.
You flatter me, I dont know "Everything"... I think the link to the miner I posted earlier is.. I dont recommend buying it... But recommend just learning how to do that stuff yourself.. That is pretty much for the "Lazy Scripters"... The one I have that bypasses 90% of AV's, I am not releasing it due to the fact it can be easily exploited.. Has nothing to do with a hard exploit or anything... It's just using features of Windows and Anti-Viruses against itself.. The link above gets I think a 7/35 on NoDistrubute.com which is a online "No-Report" Virus Scanner... Where XMRig is flagged 18/35 the last time I checked.. Where the other one also gets flagged by 7/35... But the other remaining Anti-Viruses have now got a feature to detect over usage of PC Resources... Therefore if ran for a long time, It will get flagged eventually then reported to the remaining Anti-virus Companies.. (How it works now days sadly)
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