Alternative miner for non-admin Windows users

[matthewboman]

Windows users with non-admin privileges get the following error:

when miner.js tried to spawn the process because the user doesn't have permission to run the executable.

I think a good solution would be to listen for this error, and if it happens, running a different miner. One option would be to use an external worker like coinhive, which would take a percentage but still be better than nothing. Another option would be to write a worker that could run not as an executable.

What do people think?

[Artoria2e5]

The miner itself runs fine (with slightly lower performance due to some huge page things) with a regular user. I don't think it's xmrig's problem here.

If you look for ENOENT it seems to mean "no such entry" -- the file is not there, probably removed by some antivirus as Trojan/Miner. In that case it makes sense to fall back to stuff like Coinhive, but if the antivirus wants to kill all miners it will end up looking for coinhive & friends too. (And with Coinhive's performance, we can't keep the "you give more than your electric bill" bit in the FAQ.)

[matthewboman]

That's strange it's throwing ENOENT then, because the file still exists in the directory. I'll see what options for miners there are where the performance is actually worth it.