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		dvt on May 1, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ESEA turned anti-cheat client into BTC miner And then that thread was closed. And this one was opened: http://play.esea.net/index.php?s=forums&d=topic&id=4... Turns out the ~$280 turned into over $3,500. And the 48 hours turned into 8 days.

makomk on May 1, 2013 [–]

Yeah. Only after several people in the first thread figured out that their antivirus software had been detecting the miner for much longer than 48 hours, and one of them contacted the pool used to confirm how much had actually been made, though.

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