Nicehashminer: Nice Hash Miner completely blocked by Windows Defender

[MishManners]

There is no longer a way to restore or allow false positives through AV.

I had all the Nice Hash Miner folders added to exclusions, and all the *.exe files were added to "allowed threats" and now that list is completely empty.

Nice Hash miner opens, but I cannot start mining as I cannot install any of the Plugins.

Please help! I have tired everything and nothing works.

[MishManners]

This all worked fine for me before the new update.

[MishManners]

I also tried installing various versions, none of which worked. Also tried with Quick Miner, also doesn't work.

[2T1N]

This happened to me as well, and my GPU started registering as over heating. No CPU mining & GPU overheats.

[pstricks-fans]

Cryptojacking is the act of hijacking a person's computer to secretly mine cryptocurrency.

Because cryptojacking requires increasing processing power to mine cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, miners are discovering new ways to wield that processing power. One such way is to borrow it from thousands of unwitting internet users.

[V8por5m1n3R]

Please see my possible solution on another post (link below). The presumption is that Windows Defender is your ONLY Antivirus/antimalware/antispam/privacy application (The new MS Edge adds app blocking as well so watch out as it is NOT scoped in my post. Other browsers may have similar features). An additional presumptions:

1. there is no malware/unwanted apps trying to maintain process control of your computer already.
2. drivers are up to date

Have a look: https://github.com/nicehash/NiceHashMiner/issues/2433

If it helps, please donate to my cause of helping all Nicehash miners - addresses at bottom of the post linked above.