Author Topic: Spotify has Cyrptocurrency miners in it? --False Alarm (Read 2820 times)

Metario12 · December 28, 2015, 06:27:38 PM

Quote from: ZER� on December 28, 2015, 04:32:38 PM

OP your version of spotify is infected, I don't think they would do this stuff.
forget it, I use youtube-mp3 all the time, the only downside is the washed bitrate and a little bit of quality loss.

If you used to record songs with a tape recorder back in the day its the same stuff, my dad used to have a tape recording thingy hooked up to a fm radio, it still works too.

http://puu.sh/mbUpu/cf0d204cc0.png
what did you do to your spotify

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Tokerovin · December 28, 2015, 07:27:38 PM

I use spotify regularly and the directory is clear and clean. It can very well be a botnet minenet type thing hiding in cool new edgy places.

ultimamax · December 28, 2015, 08:39:28 PM

Isn't Spotify P2P? Maybe someone did some nutty stuff with that.

Moriarty · December 28, 2015, 09:28:23 PM

Quote from: EcstaticEggplant on December 28, 2015, 02:05:10 PM

There isn't a 'caches' folder in my directory. It might just be because I don't use it a lot, though.

I use spotify all the time and there is no folder for me either. this is your end sordo

Quote from: Rally on December 28, 2015, 04:34:44 PM

There's some weird stuff going up with spotify. I'm pretty sure it's installed adware on my PC.

Yeah and it's called those stupid consecutive ads that ignore volume settings

kevin 51l · December 28, 2015, 10:49:52 PM

Quote from: ultimamax on December 28, 2015, 08:39:28 PM

Isn't Spotify P2P? Maybe someone did some nutty stuff with that.

i don't think so, i believe how it works is that you stream the music (like streaming videos) from their database at a stuff bitrate. the premium version offers a higher but still mediocre bitrate, it will always be at a lower quality than actually buying a download of the music.

the most obvious vulnerabilities spotify has is probably their ads, seeing how there's probably a lot of examples of ads doing malicious stuff in programs, and the service owners not giving a stuff as long as they get money. that and the ads give you cancer

Alternat�ve · December 28, 2015, 11:06:44 PM

why don't you just pay for spotify you get a lot of value

DaSord213 · December 28, 2015, 11:15:51 PM

Quote from: Moriarty on December 28, 2015, 09:28:23 PM

I use spotify all the time and there is no folder for me either. this is your end sordo

Yeah, I removed the whole cache folder and it seems fine. Nothing was even happening with spotify on before that, idle cpu at like 2% usage so it obviously wasn't even active. I just wanted to make sure that it wasn't a thing for everyone and spotify was going the road of putting bitcoin miners on their user's computers.

Quote from: Alternat�ve on December 28, 2015, 11:06:44 PM

why don't you just pay for spotify you get a lot of value

I agree spotify premium is really nice. I was going to be pissed if it was something spotify was doing on purpose considering how many people paying for premium.

At least it was a false alarm.

ultimamax · December 29, 2015, 01:17:21 AM

Quote from: kevin 51l on December 28, 2015, 10:49:52 PM

i don't think so, i believe how it works is that you stream the music (like streaming videos) from their database at a stuff bitrate. the premium version offers a higher but still mediocre bitrate, it will always be at a lower quality than actually buying a download of the music.

the most obvious vulnerabilities spotify has is probably their ads, seeing how there's probably a lot of examples of ads doing malicious stuff in programs, and the service owners not giving a stuff as long as they get money. that and the ads give you cancer

yeah i only have premium cuz it was $10 for 3 months

does google play music offer better bitrate? i dont want to be limiting my dope ass headphones :^)

Cowboy6 · December 29, 2015, 02:02:20 AM

There is no such thing as a "Caches" folder inside the AppData/Roaming/Spotify folder, I just looked. You were infected, though by what I'm not sure. It would be interesting to find out where it came from.

Rally · December 29, 2015, 03:14:12 AM

Quote from: Moriarty on December 28, 2015, 09:28:23 PM

Yeah and it's called those stupid consecutive ads that ignore volume settings

From time to time I randomly get weird websites opening in new tabs on my browser. I can't remember the URL exactly but I remember there being an 'app.spotify' in there somewhere. It usually redirects to really shady/weird websites advertising stuff like Norton and Perth News on non-official sites.

kevin 51l · December 29, 2015, 03:22:20 AM

Quote from: ultimamax on December 29, 2015, 01:17:21 AM

yeah i only have premium cuz it was $10 for 3 months

does google play music offer better bitrate? i dont want to be limiting my dope ass headphones :^)

i have no clue, you should look it up yourself. there's a point in which increasing the bitrate has diminishing returns and i believe it's around spotify's bitrate anyways.

Jshotgun · December 29, 2015, 03:26:25 AM

time to switch back to spoofy

Tayasaurus · December 29, 2015, 08:00:32 AM

Quote from: Jshotgun on December 29, 2015, 03:26:25 AM

time to switch back to spoofy

and watch himself some pewydeedee?

Tokthree · December 29, 2015, 08:18:00 AM

As someone who uses Spotify every day I can guarantee you with 100% certainty that Spotify does not have a "Caches" folder. Just in case any further proof is needed. You probably just have an ordinary virus that hid itself in there, I doubt it's difficult to get rid of