Bitcoin Core virus alert from Windows Security Essentials

[bushstar]

As the title says I got a virus warning from Microsoft Security Essentials, this is the native virus protection for Windows 8 and I believe is called Windows Defender. I have not found much on this and presume it is a false positive. Any ideas where this comes from? It is going to spook a lot of new users installing Bitcoin Core. The computer that got this alert is a VM in Oracle VirtualBox running Windows 7 64-bit. It is the 64-bit version of Bitcoin Core.

Virus:DOS/Azusa false positive?

[syuyu]

I've seen a few posts about this issue lately, very likely is a false positive and you can ignore it. Also you may want to exclude the bitcoin qt folder from future virus scans.

[segeln]

search at reddit for this issue.
was discussed their many times.
No threat,just put this in ignore -mode at security essentials.
i got this warning never up to now.

[Meuh6879]

i remember that my image viewer is ... too ... recognize as a virus.
free av sucks ...