- Apr 21, 2016
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A cryptocurrency miner was discovered in Andy Android emulator for Windows, with a thorough investigation carried out by the user community pointing to a malicious process silently deployed on PCs after the program was installed.
News of a cryptominer integrated into Andy went viral a few hours ago after reddit user TopWire came across a process called Updater.exe that runs even when the Android emulator is closed.
After further inspection, it was discovered that the mining program was deployed by Andy and can only be removed by uninstalling the Android emulator entirely.
Cryptominers use system resources to mine for various cryptocurrencies, sometimes leading to substantial slowdowns on computers where they are running. In this case, the cited reddit user says they observed major FPS drops at random times, only to discover that the GPU load and temperature increased substantially without any clear reason.
Read more: Cryptominer Discovered in Andy Android Emulator for Windows
News of a cryptominer integrated into Andy went viral a few hours ago after reddit user TopWire came across a process called Updater.exe that runs even when the Android emulator is closed.
After further inspection, it was discovered that the mining program was deployed by Andy and can only be removed by uninstalling the Android emulator entirely.
Cryptominers use system resources to mine for various cryptocurrencies, sometimes leading to substantial slowdowns on computers where they are running. In this case, the cited reddit user says they observed major FPS drops at random times, only to discover that the GPU load and temperature increased substantially without any clear reason.
Read more: Cryptominer Discovered in Andy Android Emulator for Windows
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