Digital currency "mining" process names

[Damian]

So, I said it best in IRC this morning:

<damian> http://d.pr/i/OIFC that was fast.

<damian> fucking bitcoin miners

<damian> that shit is getting fucking annoying

<damian> "LOLZ IM GONNA SIGN UP AND MAX OUT SOME CPU CORES IM SURE THE HOST WONT MIND ITS NOT POSSIBLE THAT THEY WOULDN'T BE DOING IT THEMSELVES IF THEY WANTED IT ON THEIR SERVERS LOZL IM SO GODDAMN CLEVER"

This is the 4th or 5th sign-up this week that we've had this issue, and it usually spikes any time flavor-of-the-week-coin has price peaks.

I've had it. It's written in our AUP/TOS that digital currency mining isn't allowed, and it's getting to be a scourge, so now we're going to start automatically killing miner processes.

What are some process names? So far, i've got:

minerd

jh-primeminer

multibit

cgminer

What are some others?

 

[Reece-DM]

We've had a few try it with us this week, mainly jhprimeminer has been used.

 

[WebSearchingPro]

I'm not particularly sure how this thread helps because they will know what processes are being looked for, I've been seeing some clever renaming of scripts to hide undetected...

 

[dano]

Not everyone is "so clever" though -- some people get lazy and just do the default stuff, or are new and are gonna use whatever it's called, and not make scripts that run it, etc.

I would say it's a good "blanket" approach to catch the low hanging fruit, and the monitoring system/sniffiing will have to catch the rest I suppose.

 

[texteditor]

Don't have any advice but you have my deepest sympathies here, mostly because I know these *coin "miners" make the shittiest VPS node neighbors.

 

[Patrick]

Don't have any advice but you have my deepest sympathies here, mostly because I know these *coin "miners" make the shittiest VPS node neighbors.

Also people think mining on 2GHz CPUs will make them rich.

 

[hzr]

Also people think mining on 2GHz CPUs will make them rich.

SHARED CORE MINING IS GREEN, EFFICIENT, AND ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY

Mining in the cloud.

 

[ryanarp]

More than likely you can make a list of processes using 100% of a cpu core for 1 hour and add that to your kill list. I think most miners pretty much do that consistently. Most of the time those are the miners that stay at 100% for that long and that consistently. You might get a few false results, but if anything would be a decent way to make a list for when they rename the process.

 

[wlanboy]

Funny folks.

The bc gold rush get people greedy and empty-headed.

If vps or highly specialised hardware would be the easy path for mining the people who sell that stuff would use that stuff themselfs.

 

[texteditor]

Funny folks.

The bc gold rush get people greedy and empty-headed.

If vps or highly specialised hardware would be the easy path for mining the people who sell that stuff would use that stuff themselfs.

Yeah, they never really think this far through this short thought process. Similarly, it's exactly why California's first millionaire was a general-store magnate and not the 49ers he was selling gold-panning equipment to.

 

[Magiobiwan]

I'd set it to kill any process using 80%+ CPU for more than 30 minutes. That'll also catch most SSH brute-force tools, shitty DoS scripts, etc.