Title: Heuristic Virus in Electrum 3.0.5 exe? Post by: Gwapo on January 09, 2018, 12:52:10 AM Norton popped this threat up upon installing the new electrum version.
https://i.imgur.com/h0c25xM.png Let me know if this is any false positive since heuristic isn't really a virus in my opinion. It tells the antivirus is trying to detect "HEURistically" that a file MIGHT be dangerous, which might not be in actual case. Title: Re: Heuristic Virus in Electrum 3.0.5 exe? Post by: TryNinja on January 09, 2018, 04:05:25 AM It's probably just a false positive. I just run a virus total scan and there are some.
Just make sure to: 1. Download only from electrum.org (http://electrum.org); 2. Verify the integrity of the file[1]. [1] https://steemit.com/bitcoin/@jklepatch/how-to-verify-the-integrity-of-electrum-wallet-executable-on-windows Title: Re: Heuristic Virus in Electrum 3.0.5 exe? Post by: Gwapo on January 10, 2018, 03:45:58 PM Yes, I reported it to Norton as a false positive (https://submit.symantec.com/false_positive) and this was their response:
Code: In relation to submission xxxxx. Upon live updating my Norton app, I was able to install Electrum properly. |