Watch Dogs torrent secretly installing a Bitcoin miner on thousands of computers

[Jax]

Who the fukk is just installing any pirated application on their system without running it in a virtual environment first?

Explain

 

[Jax]

thats not what a miner does...its using the persons cpu power to find bitcoins(not steal them)

How do you "find" bitcoins?

 

[Artificial Intelligence]

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[Jax]

I dunno exactly how it works..but thats how ppl get them by setting up miners on their pcs

What the hackers did is use other ppls pcs to do all that work with zero cost to them

I know people buy "server" pcs to run that mining operation thing but I never understood the process.

 

[Greenstrings]

thats not what a miner does...its using the persons cpu power to find bitcoins(not steal them)

I know I wasn't replying to OP

 

[duckbutta]

Explain

Never heard of Sandboxie. It's been around forever. Runs all application inside of it's own virtual memory so that it never actually accesses anything on your PC
Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

If you use Kaspersky Internet Security it has it's own program that does this

Before Sandboxie I had a regular virtual machine that I built with vmware workstation that I would use to browse the internet in, so that any virus I get would be on that virtual machine and not my actual PC

 

[OneManGang]

I know people buy "server" pcs to run that mining operation thing but I never understood the process.

I dunno exactly how it works..but thats how ppl get them by setting up miners on their pcs

What the hackers did is use other ppls pcs to do all that work with zero cost to them

In short, there are a limited number of bitcoins out there. To get more, you have to mine them. Mining involves the solving of complex algorithms that require a lot of processing. So the more processing power you have, either by one super powerful cpu, or a bunch of cpus in tandem...or any combo in between, the better chances you have of gaining bitcoins. Rough explanation.

 

[Lost His Smile]

PC Mustard Race

 

[yseJ]

eh thats just for shyts and giggles

if you're interested in the math behind mining, the fact is a consumer gaming pc, even a high-end one, is ass compared to computing power required to mine profitably (ie where your profit is actually much higher than electricity cost)

even if 100k people download the particular torrent, there wont be as many bitcoins mined off these dumbasses as people think.

 

[Kings County]

thats what a pirate gets...

If i was a game developer I would purposely start releasing torrents of my games with viruses to act as a deterrent to pirates

nah cause then if you get caught you gotta pay millions in damages

 

[heisenburrr]

eh thats just for shyts and giggles

if you're interested in the math behind mining, the fact is a consumer gaming pc, even a high-end one, is ass compared to computing power required to mine profitably (ie where your profit is actually much higher than electricity cost)

even if 100k people download the particular torrent, there wont be as many bitcoins mined off these dumbasses as people think.

exactly this

it would've been a brillant idea 3 years ago. now the guy behind this surely made little more than a few dollars

 

[heisenburrr]

People that use bitcoins. It doesn't have to be on the computer, if he used any bitcoin financial related services online, that can be mined as you're accessing these services. It's probably similar to a keylogger.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Alanis Morissette, Isn't It Ironic?

 

[Jax]

Never heard of Sandboxie. It's been around forever. Runs all application inside of it's own virtual memory so that it never actually accesses anything on your PC
Sandboxie - Sandbox software for application isolation and secure Web browsing

If you use Kaspersky Internet Security it has it's own program that does this

Before Sandboxie I had a regular virtual machine that I built with vmware workstation that I would use to browse the internet in, so that any virus I get would be on that virtual machine and not my actual PC

Never

 

[itsyoung!!]

This was already covered in the PC thread days ago, anyone who reads that (most of the PC users on this site) already knew about it