New electrum version detected as Trojan by Bitdefender

[Pursuer]

I generally skip new updates, always lag about 2 or 3 versions, unless it's a critical one of course. Not that I don't trust new versions rightaway (if it's stable, it works, and Electrum + Tomas are about as solid as it gets) just never really get into updates until need them. By the time I DO get them though, the antiviruses seem to have gotten over their initial false positives.

it is also worth mentioning that if you decided to not get the updates right away then you have to follow the changes closely by checking the Github link of Electrum project to first see if there hasn't been any serious security issues by looking at the commits that you are missing out on.
also if you encounter any issues you first have to upgrade and see if that fixes it or not. usually most of the bugs people report while using an older version are already fixed.

[Adriano2010]

I happen also with BitDefender to alert on some wallet that is virus, but after i scan on virus total say is not a virus, you should also try to scan your electrum wallet on virus total.

[hugeblack]

I was on 3.3.4 and was trying to upgrade to 3.3.6 which showed up on my wallet

The above comments have given enough answers with a lot of details but how can this happen?    Did you download the antivirus software (Bitdefender) after downloading the old wallet version "3.3.4"? If this program is already installed you will get the same error in previous versions.

Check the signature and follow the official twitter account to check for future problems.

[hyunee]

I am using electrum since I entered cryptocurrency. And there's no problem with its use. I don't have any problems with it nor having some viruses occuring at its platform. Probably the only thing I don't in favor with electrum is there are a lots of scam with this platform. Not on their part but those people that are pretending to be electrum.

Just ignore your virus detector. They are complete bust, I'm telling you. They were the ones to create virus at the first place. . That's why, it's good to have windows defender instead.

[maldini]

I don't think you need to worry about the virus if you download the wallet from the official Electrum website. Indeed, sometimes there are errors made by antivirus, my files are also often detected by viruses, but in my opinion this antivirus is too sensitive.

[BrewMaster]

I was on 3.3.4 and was trying to upgrade to 3.3.6 which showed up on my wallet

The above comments have given enough answers with a lot of details but how can this happen?    Did you download the antivirus software (Bitdefender) after downloading the old wallet version "3.3.4"? If this program is already installed you will get the same error in previous versions.

Check the signature and follow the official twitter account to check for future problems.

it sometimes is because of the changes they make in the application and add or remove certain functionalities and sometimes it is because those changes are creating certain hashes in the signature of the files that resemble a virus signature which then is caught as "suspicious" by the antivirus program.
the other possibility is the upgrades in the AntiVirus itself which adds new virus signatures so it starts detecting these things as Trojan,...

[Rahman11]

I think it's not perfect way of install some apps, you can verify it's other way not try to detect by bitdefender! I am also upgrade new version from my mobile phone and it's work fine without any problems! I think sometimes anti-virus not work properly, and if you don't feel safe then you can avoid update now and you can waiting for some days for update from users and from also app developers!

[coin-investor]

I stopped using Bitdefender because of the so many false positives it shows up in my applications, another antivirus is not like that in my applications, I replace it with Secureplus and Karspersky, I'm using Electrum at  first it was detected as with Trojan also but from the reviews I've read it's a false positive.