Well that didn't go as expected...
Well that didn't go as expected...
For those who are wondering, yes, Wine is malware compatible so be careful about the EXEs you run!
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This happened to me not long ago when I found a monero miner running on my laptop. Being a highly technical person, I feel unbounded shame.
94 0 ReplyWas it still through WINE? I'd feel bad for the miner as well as it likely couldn't have done the MSR mod so low hashrate lol.
9 0 ReplyFeeling bad that a scammer couldn't scam hard enough is hilarious. Only in a Linux forum.
8 0 ReplyTbf, if you get an OOTB distro infected, that is most definitely user error
6 0 ReplyIf you (somehow) manage to get gentoo or lfs infected, I'd still consider it user error lol
1 0 ReplyLFS maybe, but gentoo or arch is understandable because you have to set the security up yourself.
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Yes it was, I run Zorin (Ubuntu-based) on my laptop.
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How did you figure out it was running? How did you confirm? Teach me your methods
Please
2 0 ReplyIt was pretty easy to spot in
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since it had really high CPU usage. Plus, the command line args it launched with included the word "Monero" multiple times, so that was a bit of a giveaway haha3 0 Reply