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Update README and FAQ.

Con Kolivas 14 years ago
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 This is a multi-threaded multi-pool CPU and GPU miner with ATI GPU monitoring,
 (over)clocking and fanspeed support for bitcoin and derivative coins.
 
+DOWNLOADS:
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+http://ck.kolivas.org/apps/cgminer
+
 GIT TREE:
 
 https://github.com/ckolivas/cgminer
@@ -478,10 +482,9 @@ A: Remove the "-march=native" component of your CFLAGS as your version of gcc
 does not support it.
 
 Q: The CPU usage is high.
-A: If you're on linux, the ATI drivers after 11.6 have a bug that makes them
-consume 100% of one CPU core unnecessarily so downgrade to 11.6. If you're on
-windows, you may be out of luck because the pthread library used consumes a
-lot of CPU. Binding everything to one CPU core on windows can help.
+A: The ATI drivers after 11.6 have a bug that makes them consume 100% of one
+CPU core unnecessarily so downgrade to 11.6. Binding cgminer to one CPU core on
+windows can minimise it to 100% (instead of more than one core).
 
 Q: Can you implement feature X?
 A: I can, but time is limited, and people who donate are more likely to get
@@ -504,6 +507,13 @@ doing this is to try its absolute best to keep the GPUs working on something
 useful and not risk idle periods. You can disable this behaviour with the
 option --failover-only.
 
+Q: Is this a virus?
+A: Cgminer is being packaged with other trojan scripts and some antivirus
+software is falsely accusing cgminer.exe as being the actual virus, rather
+than whatever it is being packaged with. If you installed cgminer yourself,
+then you do not have a virus on your computer. Complain to your antivirus
+software company.
+
 Q: GUI version?
 A: No.