What is dropper?

Another way to mine at the expense of your capacity. A dropper is a program that secretly installs a virus program. The most common example is downloading a free installation file.

Distribution of the hidden miner often occurs through installation packages of games, since gamers often have powerful PCs and open administrator rights for the installer, as well as disable antivirus software to improve game performance.

As a result, the game is really installed and launched, but after the startup, the miner with additional tools is loaded, which provides the disguise of the virus for the system process and autorun.

Back in 2014, the case of BTC mining was known through the installer of the game Watch Dogs. The most commonly used dropper is MinerGate.