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April 03, 2014, 11:43:32 PM
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So I always have qt running along with avast anti virus. And just a few min ago avast detected infections in 4 files. First, blk00129.dat, most recent block at the time based on date added. It lists virus name as 10 past 3.
The other files isolated are .sst (x2) and .log 

Anyone else have this kind of thing happen?
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April 04, 2014, 12:22:38 AM
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So I always have qt running along with avast anti virus. And just a few min ago avast detected infections in 4 files. First, blk00129.dat, most recent block at the time based on date added. It lists virus name as 10 past 3.
The other files isolated are .sst (x2) and .log 

Anyone else have this kind of thing happen?

Perhaps a virus signature based on a bitcoin address?
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April 04, 2014, 12:27:36 AM
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That's a new one....

Do you know what block triggered it?

Currently on block  ~294,057
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April 04, 2014, 02:38:38 AM
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No I'm not really sure. It was at around 11:16 pm according to the forum time.
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April 04, 2014, 02:40:37 AM
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At least it wasn't a block you solved and were trying to broadcast to the network asap.

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April 04, 2014, 01:23:34 PM
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At least it wasn't a block you solved and were trying to broadcast to the network asap.

there's something up with correct horse battery staple.  if you put that priv key in your Bitcoin app, it will crash every time.

there's something going on.  quantumll.y.

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April 04, 2014, 08:28:33 PM
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At least it wasn't a block you solved and were trying to broadcast to the network asap.

there's something up with correct horse battery staple.  if you put that priv key in your Bitcoin app, it will crash every time.

there's something going on.  quantumll.y.

I get same issue today, you can see the virus total report of one file.

https://www.virustotal.com/es/file/d6cce34e8297c9b8beb4cd424536c6c73fdd92843694b6d7bbc84ae7a4153b44/analysis/1396641987/

I deleted it all, but my Bitcoin-Qt crashes and is downloading the whole chain again. It happened in a Mac, so not sure what's is going on.


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April 04, 2014, 08:33:54 PM
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http://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=4

Apparently that's a really old virus from 1992!

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April 04, 2014, 08:36:14 PM
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http://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=4

Apparently that's a really old virus from 1992!



It should be a false positive, I found it too, but can't believe a virus from 1992 can infect my computer ... and even less, run on a mac a win virus...

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April 04, 2014, 08:38:41 PM
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http://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=4

Apparently that's a really old virus from 1992!



It should be a false positive, I found it too, but can't believe a virus from 1992 can infect my computer ... and even less, run on a mac a win virus...

When your floppy disk drives are disabled on the 29th of the month, you will know for sure.

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April 04, 2014, 08:53:04 PM
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http://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=4

Apparently that's a really old virus from 1992!



It should be a false positive, I found it too, but can't believe a virus from 1992 can infect my computer ... and even less, run on a mac a win virus...

When your floppy disk drives are disabled on the 29th of the month, you will know for sure.



 Grin Grin Grin Cheesy What? Floppy drives Huh  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy   

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April 07, 2014, 11:12:10 AM
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http://wiw.org/~meta/vsum/view.php?vir=4

Apparently that's a really old virus from 1992!



It should be a false positive, I found it too, but can't believe a virus from 1992 can infect my computer ... and even less, run on a mac a win virus...

When your floppy disk drives are disabled on the 29th of the month, you will know for sure.



 Grin Grin Grin Cheesy What? Floppy drives Huh  Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy Cheesy   

again ...


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April 07, 2014, 11:25:39 AM
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never in dream, i install a free av ... on my bitcoin computer.  Roll Eyes
even in my P2P computer, all free av (or commercial) ... is a pain for no improve of security.

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April 07, 2014, 11:53:29 AM
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never in dream, i install a free av ... on my bitcoin computer.  Roll Eyes
even in my P2P computer, all free av (or commercial) ... is a pain for no improve of security.



That is not real at all, AV is useful, even if if it is easy bypassable (does this word do exist?) it better than don't have any.

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April 07, 2014, 12:06:15 PM
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Yeah, Hitman Pro marks a lot of bitcoin mining related files as potentially suspicious, but doesn't quarantine them. If Avast has the option (haven't used it in a while), report that the files are safe, and in the next month or so it should stop doing that.

Alternatively, just disable the AV until they've fixed that, and regularly move your bitcoins to an address where the private key isn't stored on your PC.



even if if it is easy bypassable (does this word do exist?)
I think that word does exist, but 'easy to bypass' would be better grammatically. Smiley
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April 07, 2014, 02:11:35 PM
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Yeah, Hitman Pro marks a lot of bitcoin mining related files as potentially suspicious, but doesn't quarantine them. If Avast has the option (haven't used it in a while), report that the files are safe, and in the next month or so it should stop doing that.

Alternatively, just disable the AV until they've fixed that, and regularly move your bitcoins to an address where the private key isn't stored on your PC.



even if if it is easy bypassable (does this word do exist?)
I think that word does exist, but 'easy to bypass' would be better grammatically. Smiley

I have on QT just 0.00002 mBTC so no problem to lose it today.

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April 08, 2014, 10:17:33 AM
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So avast is working properly with blocks or not ? I use Norton soo...
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April 08, 2014, 10:21:00 AM
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So avast is working properly with blocks or not ? I use Norton soo...

Aparently not.

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April 08, 2014, 01:31:20 PM
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Antivirus is for noobs.
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April 08, 2014, 02:36:19 PM
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Antivirus is for noobs.

Good luck fighting a virus without knowing which one is it, and what it does. I guess many Linux or Mac users out there Smiley

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