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#136577 2-Dec-2013 13:48

If by any chance you're using YourFreeProxy it would be a good time to uninstall it now... It's been found to install a Bitcoin miner on systems so people will have their PCs generating Bitcoins for them - without being advised of this "side effect".

Nothing comes free, folks...

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#944207 2-Dec-2013 16:14

I just read that too:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/12/01/dont_like_our_malware_tough_read_the_eula/

Although it seems odd to mine Bitcoins on a PC anyway as it would take a LONG time to generate any profit, considering they have to cover their expenses to develop and test the software they wrote to do this.

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#944212 2-Dec-2013 16:19

If they have this distributed to 10,000 PCs they don't care about how long it takes, as long as every PC is doing it concurrently.

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