CPU Miners

In using a crypto miner sometimes antivirus commonly will flag some versions as a virus when in fact it is not. The way a coin miner works is that it has automatically runs a script to in order to do it's mining. Because it's a script and runs by itself then antivirus considers it suspicious, depending on what script the miner uses or how it's made. What the script does it it polls a server to get it's mining job information to do hashing, then sends back the results and gets a new job and does this constantly as it mines. Either one has to turn off antivirus or tell it to add exception to ignore the download file and the miner when it's working.

Crypto mining software can be downloaded from these links on Github:

CPU Miner-opt-rplant

The 5.0.24 version is 64 bit works on most versions of Windows and Linux.  It has algos for most cpu coins. Download size 20Mb for Win and 29Mb for Linux.

This is the 32 bit version for older computers and works on Win 7 or older versions of Windows. cpuminer-opt-rplant 4.0.27

CPU Miner-opt

This is the Jayddee version - It can connect to certain pools if the above versions refuse to connect. It does not have as many algos as the RPlant version. Download size is 18Mb.

XMRigCC  Versions: 2.9.4 2.9.7

XMRigCC has various versions - Win32 & 64 bit and Linux. It also can run on Arm processors such as Tinkerbox or Raspberry Pi. It has limited algos for cpu coins and works best with the ghostrider gr algo. Download size is 2-5Mb.

Algorithms:

In order to mine the miner uses an algo which is basically what lets it do it's encrypting. Some common algos for cpu coins are yespower, yescrypt, yescryptR16, cpupower, yespowerSUGAR, lyra2z330, power2b and gr. Mining pools will list the algo each coin uses and some coins also use the same algo. Some pools also offer a choice of algos for some coins and some algos mine faster than others depending on hardware. For a list of coins and algos see the Coins Page. As a note: Scrypt and Shah based algos are slower and more difficult than most others due to being more cpu intensive.

Mining Pools