minerd.exe shows as a (Potentially Unwanted Program) and gets deleted under McAfee

Message boards : Number crunching : minerd.exe shows as a (Potentially Unwanted Program) and gets deleted under McAfee

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CrunchForCoin Send message Joined: 21 Nov 14 Posts: 48 Credit: 106,229,271,520 RAC: 44,095,384	Message 6485 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 18:31:57 UTC Last modified: 21 Nov 2014, 18:32:22 UTC
	Is it the minerd.exe recognized as a Trojan horse, What is going on? D:\ApplicationData\BOINC\projects\www.bitcoinutopia.net_bitcoinutopia\wrapper_26011_windows_intelx86.exe D:\ApplicationData\BOINC\slots\0\minerd.exe RDN/Generic PUP.x!c2b (Potentially Unwanted Program) I did search the Forums for this.
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NATE1 Send message Joined: 28 Jul 13 Posts: 765 Credit: 33,223,103,040 RAC: 0	Message 6486 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 18:37:13 UTC - in response to Message 6485.
	Is it the minerd.exe recognized as a Trojan horse, What is going on? D:\ApplicationData\BOINC\projects\www.bitcoinutopia.net_bitcoinutopia\wrapper_26011_windows_intelx86.exe D:\ApplicationData\BOINC\slots\0\minerd.exe RDN/Generic PUP.x!c2b (Potentially Unwanted Program) I did search the Forums for this. http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=619&postid=6484#6484 well seems that MS dropped a security path on everybody past tuesday and now all the AVs are updateing to match. I say like the avg in the link, your av got updated today/overnight. and no it not a bad wrapper/exe/com/etc...
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CrunchForCoin Send message Joined: 21 Nov 14 Posts: 48 Credit: 106,229,271,520 RAC: 44,095,384	Message 6487 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 18:47:28 UTC Last modified: 21 Nov 2014, 18:48:08 UTC
	I update the Dat Files and still see: 11/21/2014 11:43:29 AM Deleted User Name C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\minerd.exe RDN/Generic PUP.x!c2b (Potentially Unwanted Program) Will watch this for a while, kind of not like to see this is all. Thanks
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NATE1 Send message Joined: 28 Jul 13 Posts: 765 Credit: 33,223,103,040 RAC: 0	Message 6488 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 18:53:39 UTC - in response to Message 6487.
	I update the Dat Files and still see: 11/21/2014 11:43:29 AM Deleted User Name C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\minerd.exe RDN/Generic PUP.x!c2b (Potentially Unwanted Program) Will watch this for a while, kind of not like to see this is all. Thanks just exclude it from scan
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CrunchForCoin Send message Joined: 21 Nov 14 Posts: 48 Credit: 106,229,271,520 RAC: 44,095,384	Message 6489 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 18:54:59 UTC - in response to Message 6488. Last modified: 21 Nov 2014, 19:07:43 UTC
	I update the Dat Files and still see: 11/21/2014 11:43:29 AM Deleted User Name C:\WINDOWS\Explorer.EXE C:\Documents and Settings\User Name\Desktop\minerd.exe RDN/Generic PUP.x!c2b (Potentially Unwanted Program) Will watch this for a while, kind of not like to see this is all. Thanks just exclude it from scan Yes I have for now, but will still keep an eye on this. On Windows 7 is shows: 11/21/2014 12:01:18 No Action Taken ODS[5416] C:\ProgramData\BOINC\slots\5\minerd.exe Artemis!636882CE4082 (Trojan)
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Nick Name Send message Joined: 17 Jul 14 Posts: 70 Credit: 80,711,537,670 RAC: 62,090,212	Message 6490 - Posted: 21 Nov 2014, 20:04:43 UTC
	From the FAQ on the front page: http://www.bitcoinutopia.net/bitcoinutopia/forum_thread.php?id=235&postid=835#835 Antivirus programs wrongly flag files as malicious all the time. ____________ Team USA forum \| Team USA page
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Message boards : Number crunching : minerd.exe shows as a (Potentially Unwanted Program) and gets deleted under McAfee