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1  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Anti AntiVirus Bitcoin Core on: August 04, 2020, 01:11:12 PM
You might want to add Electrum, since there are few people said Electrum is flagged by their antivirus.

Thanks for the feedback.

Added the Windows and macOS binaries.
2  Bitcoin / Project Development / Project: "Bitcoin Client VirusTotal Tracker" for false positive detection by AV on: August 04, 2020, 12:01:35 PM
Hi all!

Description:
Despite being one of the most highly scrutinized and maintained open source software, Bitcoin Core (the Bitcoin reference client) gets sometimes falsely detected as malicious or PUP (Potentially Unwanted Programs) by antivirus products. This is quite annoying and can confuse new users who want to run a full node. Most of these false positives come from the CPU mining functionality which was removed with the v.0.13.0 a couple years ago.

To better track these false positives, I created the "Bitcoin Client VirusTotal Tracker". This project regularly tracks the false positive detection rate of Bitcoin clients on VirusTotal which aggregates antivirus products and online scan engines.

Example:
"1/72" means that one out of 72 antivirus vendors detect "bitcoin-0.20.1-win64-setup.exe" as malicious.
You can see the details (e.g. which vendor) on VirusTotal if you click on the result.

Bitcoin Client VirusTotal Tracker:
https://bitcoinissafe.com

This project was inspired by the #BitcoinIsSafe/#WasabiIsSafe campaign started by the
Wasabi Wallet and Riccardo Masutti: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5215945.

I appreciate all feedback and improvement ideas!

Best
CoinForensics
3  Bitcoin / Bitcoin Discussion / Re: Anti AntiVirus Bitcoin Core on: August 04, 2020, 10:32:19 AM
I have been monitoring Bitcoin Core versions in the past few months and reported the false positives to the AV providers..

To better track the status I created the "Bitcoin Client VirusTotal Tracker" on https://bitcoinissafe.com.
It checks the false positive detection rate of Bitcoin clients every few hours via the VirusTotal API.

I appreciate all feedback, improvements, changes, ..
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