Prevention and Treatment Methods of Mining Machine Poisoning

Since 2018, mining machine poisoning has occurred frequently on the market. Compared with the previously highly recognizable poisoning manifestations, such as the miner's name and mining address being tampered with, and the inability to enter the mining machine's background, the virus has become more cunning at present, and the poisoning manifestation has been further upgraded.

Common manifestations of mining machine poisoning:

Unable to enter the miner background;

The mining address and the name of the miner have been tampered with: the tampered mining pools are mostly nicehash, etc.;

The firmware cannot be upgraded from the miner background;

The mining machine is disconnected irregularly and restarts automatically within a short period of time;

The computing power is affected (the computing power is reduced or the computing power is 0);

Network disconnection, etc.

How to effectively prevent mining machine poisoning

Before buying a second-hand machine, it is recommended to swipe the card and isolate the network for a period of time;

After the miner is repaired at the unofficial maintenance point, please update the firmware in time and modify the login password of the miner;

Does not use third-party overclocking firmware;

Do not browse suspicious websites;

Use the official security firmware (the firmware with the SSH function turned off in the official website).

Antivirus method

Network isolation is required;

Go to the official after-sales service of the mining machine to obtain the relevant anti-virus software, and after the acquisition is successful, follow the operation steps to carry out the anti-virus;

If the antivirus is unsuccessful, it is recommended to swipe the machine.