Antivirus "false" positives #15156

issue ghost opened this issue on January 12, 2019

ghost commented at 5:11 PM on January 12, 2019: none

I just downloaded 0.17.1 and checked the SHA, it matches as you can see but it's not all green. I believe they are all false positives, but this is an issue as I see developers turned down for this!! Slowing adoption. Isn't there any other solution other than notifying all those antivirus companies? Will there always be reds with this binary?

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.asc file says:

fa1e80c5e4ecc705549a8061e5e7e0aa6b2d26967f99681b5989d9bd938d8467 bitcoin-0.17.1-win64-setup.exe

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~~Antivirus "false" positives 0.17.1~~
Antivirus "false" positives
on Jan 12, 2019
fanquake added the label Windows on Jan 12, 2019
fanquake commented at 1:01 AM on January 13, 2019: member

Yes this a false positive from your virus software. This happens semi-regularly on Windows, i.e #12320, #11852, #12777, #4069.
fanquake closed this on Jan 13, 2019
fanquake locked this on Jan 19, 2019

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