According to Avast its malware (not the mining type)

[Djcoldcrown]

so i downloaded salad.io in hopes of making some cash and a soon as i booted up the chopping avast gave me a notification that Phoenixminer.exe was put into my virus chest because it was infected with "win64: Malware-Gen"

[ConniBug]

Malware-Gen -> EG a generalized virus eg a bitcoin miner...