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April 07, 2014, 08:21:31 AM
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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.

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April 07, 2014, 08:30:20 AM
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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.
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April 07, 2014, 08:38:18 AM
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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.
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April 07, 2014, 11:40:36 AM
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i remember that my image viewer is ... too ... recognize as a virus.
free av sucks ...
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