Bitcoin Tutorials - Herong's Tutorial Examples - v1.06, by Herong Yang
bitcoin-qt.exe Removed as PUA:Win32/CoinMiner
This section describes why Bitcoin-Qt.exe is removed by System Center Endpoint Protection.
After installed Bitcoin Core on a Windows computer, you may notice that Bitcoin Core Wallet GUI program, bitcoin-qt.exe disappeared by itself.
If you check the history tab of "System Center Endpoint Protection" program, you see that bitcoin-qt.exe was detected and removed as "PUA:Win32/CoinMiner".
But on the PUA:Win32/CoinMiner information Website at https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/wdsi/threats /malware-encyclopedia-description?Name=PUA:Win32/CoinMiner, "PUA:Win32/CoinMiner" is described as:
This application was stopped from running on your network because it has a poor reputation. This application can also affect the quality of your computing experience. For example, some potentially unwanted applications can: - Install additional bundled software - Modify your homepage - Modify your search provider - Perform other actions that you might not have intended
That does not match what bitcoin-qt.exe is providing. So may this is a mistake in the virus signature file used by "System Center Endpoint Protection".
Without bitcoin-qt.exe, you can still run bitcoind.exe and bitcoin-cli.exe to keep your Bitcoin server alive and manage your Bitcoin wallet.
Table of Contents
►Bitcoin-Qt - Bitcoin Core GUI
"bitcoin-qt.exe -testnet" - Bitcoin Test Network
bitcoin-qt - Wallet and Receiving Addresses
bitcoin-qt - Debug Window Console
►bitcoin-qt.exe Removed as PUA:Win32/CoinMiner