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Title: Trying to download Wallet, tells me infected with MalwareGen
Post by: MrScabby on December 26, 2017, 04:55:09 AM
any ideas, trying to download windows 64bit (or 32bit) both are returning virus in Avast

github-production-release-asset.2e65be.se.amazonsws.com becuase infected with Win64:Malware-gen


Title: Re: Trying to download Wallet, tells me infected with MalwareGen
Post by: pooya87 on December 26, 2017, 05:02:08 AM
you forgot to say which wallet.
in any case take these steps:
1. make sure you are downloading from the original website not a fake lookalike website.
2. learn how to verify a GPG signature and do it. all the famous wallets with developers who understand basic security will sign using GnuPG and release their publickey.
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19011093/how-do-i-verify-a-gpg-signature-matches-a-public-key-file
a better example: https://www.torproject.org/docs/verifying-signatures.html.en

if you verified the signature and made sure it is the real wallet installation file then the chances of your AntiVirus being wrong is pretty high.


Title: Re: Trying to download Wallet, tells me infected with MalwareGen
Post by: MrScabby on December 26, 2017, 05:17:53 AM
Link was

http://phoenixcoin.org/

for the Windows 64bit or 32bit - both come back as infected
...and I cannot download it to try a signature on the file, Avast terminates the connection


Title: Re: Trying to download Wallet, tells me infected with MalwareGen
Post by: pooya87 on December 26, 2017, 05:29:57 AM
this may actually be a malware!
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=330956.msg26022600#msg26022600

you can ask for more help in their official topic.


Title: Re: Trying to download Wallet, tells me infected with MalwareGen
Post by: Ali Akbar Torang on December 26, 2017, 07:35:48 AM
Becarefull, i got infected too, you must be sure it safe to install some crypto stuff or open some web for crypto link.