Electrum wallet virus

[bcgloat]

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

[nexus2k14]

If you downloaded Electrum from "official website" there is nothing to worry about. Sometimes any antivirus picks false positive files and automatically quarantine them. You have two choices, look for another wallet but I am using Electrum and is trustworthy and of best desktop wallets out there, the second option is disable antivirus, download wallet and install. Then go location where wallet is installed and scan files from right context menu. Sometimes antivirus software will delete zip/far filed automatically so this may be the case too. If you install from the official website there is nothing to worry about.

[shamzblueworld]

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

Have you downloaded it from their official website? Because then it will be fine. And your antivirus is just doing it because it is not recognizing it or don't have its certificate in its database, there is nothing to worry about, you can just disable your antivirus for a few minutes, download and install and then reactivate your antivirus again.
Electrum is one of the most used desktop wallets, I am also using it and its one of the top trusted ones too.
But make sure you are downloading it from their official website.

[reingelz09]

Almost all of the cryptowallets are detected as virus depending on what antivirus u used. I simply consider it a false positive especially if it comes from their websites. You have no choice than to exclude that particular wallet in your AV

[Rinsend]

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

I just heard about the virus when you upload your wallet,
sayarasa virus is not happening from the download you do
but it is downloaded from the website where you download the electrum wallet.
try to download it from the official electrum website

[mekar sari]

Windows deffender is too sensitive, you can check more accurately on the VIRUSTOTAL site, if the red number shows 0 then the wallet is safe, this is very common on the desktop wallet

[Casey7]

If you downloaded Electrum from "official website" there is nothing to worry about. Sometimes any antivirus picks false positive files and automatically quarantine them. You have two choices, look for another wallet but I am using Electrum and is trustworthy and of best desktop wallets out there, the second option is disable antivirus, download wallet and install. Then go location where wallet is installed and scan files from right context menu. Sometimes antivirus software will delete zip/far filed automatically so this may be the case too. If you install from the official website there is nothing to worry about.

It is like my antivirus. It  delete something that i just download from official website.
But i think we have to put the wallet in exception of the antivirus and no need to worry about the walletbit is safe.

[pooya87]

first make sure that you have actually downloaded the correct file!
the real one is this:
https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3-setup.exe
then verify the  signature of what you have downloaded by using the file signature:
https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3-setup.exe.asc
and the signers public key:
https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x2BD5824B7F9470E6

if you did that and the signature was correct then you can be sure that your antivirus is detecting a false positive. simply ignore it (add Electrum to exclusion list of your AV or use another AV). it is not the first time they have detected Electrum as a trojan or something.

[Wind_FURY]

first make sure that you have actually downloaded the correct file!
the real one is this:
https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3-setup.exe
then verify the  signature of what you have downloaded by using the file signature:
https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3-setup.exe.asc
and the signers public key:
https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x2BD5824B7F9470E6

if you did that and the signature was correct then you can be sure that your antivirus is detecting a false positive. simply ignore it (add Electrum to exclusion list of your AV or use another AV). it is not the first time they have detected Electrum as a trojan or something.

We cannot stress this enough to the new users.

Learn how to use PGP and checksums for verifying anything you download online, even if it is from a trusted source. Windows users especially.

With that in mind, I believe we should get ready for the newbies. Bitcoin's new found popularity among the mainstream will take them here to ask questions and complain. Haha.

[olubams]

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

Since you have said it's from the official site, then its to be sure its really from the official site. If its there, then there is nothing to worry about. A lot of people uses this software and it is yet to fail which its expected to stay that way. I have downloaded it but on Windows 8.1 which I haven't had any issue whatsoever even with a very strong anti virus until I discontinue its use. Just go trace the source, validate it, then make exception for your antivirus or better still download the android version.

[Malamok101]

I think it's not legit the electreum because most of us are scam and it's too much to use here because everyone has to use it just because of the time and tired of it because the electreum does not have an exchanger marketcap, I just say no to this facebook scam and do not waste time here because it does not pay anything.

[bcgloat]

thanks to everybody, you have been all very kind. Could you suggest me another good wallet that I could try?

[Wind_FURY]

thanks to everybody, you have been all very kind. Could you suggest me another good wallet that I could try?

Do you know how to use Linux? It does not really need a highly technical person to use it. I suggest you try Bitkey. It is a bootable Linux operating system with all your Bitcoin storage needs preinstalled.

https://bitkey.io/

[harizen]

thanks to everybody, you have been all very kind. Could you suggest me another good wallet that I could try?

https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/desktop/windows/

https://bitcoin.org/en/wallets/hardware/

You can also consider using Mobile wallets but study first what is that all about.

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

Windows Defender is not that sensitive in terms of malwares and small virus. I don't know what's the catch here so to verify that, I downloaded Electrum just now and my Windows Defender didn't detect such malwares.

[HCP]

I downloaded v3.0.3 yesterday... tried to run it... Windows popped up a big red box saying that it was blocked... Something about it not being signed software... Defender and MalwareBytes both detected nothing... I verified the digital signature of the file using GPG and signature... Re-ran it, and clicked the "proceed anyway" button on the big red warning box

I assume the warning was because it wasn't a "windows" signed application... probably requiring payment to Microsoft

[bcgloat]

thanks, I know that bitcoin site but I would like to know, if Electrum is considered the best for Win10, what's the second one? A person suggested me Jaxx but on Quora they said it was badly coded and that has been hacked etc. I prefer not to install something on my cellphone nor installing other OS on my laptop but in the near future I plan to buy an hardware wallet. However, is it so dangerous to keep them on Coinbase? I've read there that they are insured and that they store the 98% of the customer's funds in a cold storage

[bcgloat]

i've accidentally tried again to download electrum and i haven't had that problem again

[AlexBeast]

Hey guys, I know It's an old thread, but my antivirus
finds new infected files every 5 minutes

always in the same directory.. I can't do a system restore because it's windows 8.1 recovery error 0x80070005

And every single infected file ends with .pyc
e.g.: bitcoin.pyc

[bob123]

Hey guys, I know It's an old thread, but my antivirus
finds new infected files every 5 minutes

always in the same directory.. I can't do a system restore because it's windows 8.1 recovery error 0x80070005

And every single infected file ends with .pyc
e.g.: bitcoin.pyc

.pyc are compiled python files (modules loaded in scripts).
Did you already try to do a full scan of your pc with your AV?

How is this problem related to electrum? Did this problem start occuring after you installed electrum?
If so, did you check the signature or at least the checksum?

You can find the signature for the current windows installer [1] and the standalone executable [2] on their official site, just like the ThomasV's PGP key [3].
You can verify your files (if you have gpg installed) with gpg --verify electrum-3.0.3.exe.asc electrum-3.0.3.exe in your command line.

[1] https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3-setup.exe.asc
[2] https://download.electrum.org/3.0.3/electrum-3.0.3.exe.asc
[3] https://pgp.mit.edu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x2BD5824B7F9470E6

[Spendulus]

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

Since you have said it's from the official site, then its to be sure its really from the official site. If its there, then there is nothing to worry about. A lot of people uses this software and it is yet to fail which its expected to stay that way. I have downloaded it but on Windows 8.1 which I haven't had any issue whatsoever even with a very strong anti virus until I discontinue its use. Just go trace the source, validate it, then make exception for your antivirus or better still download the android version.

It's not enough to tell people to "be sure it's really from the official site."

This is what is necessary.

A) Locate the official site, such as by looking at bitcoin talk.org. NOT GOOGLE.

B) Type the URL in. Do not click on a link.

C) DL the program and verify the PGP signature.

Do it, get used to it. Do it again just for practice.