How to prevent mining machines from virus infection? How to handle and kill the viruses?

Some miners may suddenly find that their hashrate suddenly decreases a lot in the process of mining, which could be caused by the virus-infected mining machine. In addition to this phenomenon, if it's unable to access the backstage of the mining machines, the mining address and/or miner name are/is tampered, it's unable to upgrade the firmware from the backstage of the mining machines, and/or the mining machines are disconnected irregularly, all these may result from the mining machines infected with a virus.

·How to effectively prevent mining machines from being infected by viruses?

After purchasing second-hand mining machines, it is recommended to execute system recovery and carry out network isolation for a period of time. Please update the firmware and modify the login password of the mining machines in time after the maintenance at the non-official maintenance shop. Do not use third-party over-clocking firmware, and use official secure firmware.

·How to handle and kill viruses?

Once mining machine is found of virus infection, it is necessary to check all computers and machines in the network to ensure that the computers are not infected with viruses, and isolate the infected machines from other machines in the network. In addition, obtain relevant anti-virus software from the official after-sales service of mining machine manufacturer, and kill the virus according to the operation steps after obtaining the software successfully. If killing virus is not successful, it's advisable to execute system recovery for the machine.