https://feedback.coinfoundry.org/communities/1/topics/1294-monero-pool-down-until-tommorow

Understandable. Blame Monero.

https://feedback.coinfoundry.org/communities/1/topics/1294-monero-pool-down-until-tommorow

I'm on it.

Windows Defender Folder Exclusion is key here: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/4028485/windows-10-add-an-exclusion-to-windows-security

I naturally have ton of mining software laying around for testing and this is the only solution to make it bearable.

Not much. For XMR-Stak 2.5, the value you need set for the "currency" property in pools.txt is now "monero".

A little hickup of the daemon. Restarted. Sorry for the inconvenience.

You will most likely get a payment. The longer it takes to find a block from the moment you've stopped mining, the lower the reward. That's how PPLNS works: https://coinfoundry.org/faq#payments

We are not responsible for Xmr-stak. We are just linking to it. 

Regarding your worker problem, I would have to see your config to judge what went wrong.

Could you explain what you mean with "the total is still adding to default"?

Dan, I'm only human. I have to solve one problem after the other.