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RE: Investigating the Pomegranate Network Mining Gridcoin
Can we report that specific version of BOINC to antivirus manufacturers? I dont know how they work with determining one version from another, but if its a customized version can it be explicity listed as malware?
The fact that these users are unwittingly infected may mean they do not have any security, or that its so compromised that it wont make a difference, but who knows, it may stop this version from spreading further.
I think that getting one version of BOINC labeled as malware would get all versions flagged, it would be massively detrimental to non tech-savvy users to see that the software they understand to be solving cancer is potentially malware (Even if it's a false negative).
A better alternative would be to get BOINC projects to enforce mandatory minimum BOINC client versions & if they don't adhere to these minimum requirements they're voted out of the whitelist.
Sure that works better I guess, at least I tried for a solution :)