I downloaded the windows GUI but the "AntSharesUI.exe" is being detected as virus (IDP.Generic) from Avast. Anybody here with similar experience?
Hmmm....I am using the Avast anti-virus scanner myself, but it did not indicate it to be a virus in my case as far as I remember. Virus scanners generally work on probabilities and are thereby subject to false positives (flagging a file as virus when it is not). As long as you got the files from the official Antshares / NEO website it should be fine. Never install it unless you got it from the official websites.
Yeah its from the official website. I just downloaded it again to be sure. A bit strange tho that the download of 4mb takes like 5 minutes.
When I check the zip file and the extracted folder nothing is found by Avast but when I click on the AntSharesUI.exe it gets immediately blocked and removed. I am bit worried as I never had such problems with any wallet before. Maybe anybody here with some deeper knowledge about such things?
If you got it from the official website you have nothing to worry about. It is called a false positive in statistics. A virus scanner is not 100% accurate in locating all viruses and works with certain odds that if something looks like a potential virus then it could be classified as a virus. Some virus scanners classify a lot of safe files as viruses (including real and harmless files) and thereby ruin the stability of your operating system by quarantining or deleted harmless files. Other virus scanners do not catch enough viruses and thereby compromise your system in that way. Virus scanner companies have to make a choice in that regard. So just because a virus scanner states that it detects a potential virus, does not have to mean that there is an actual virus. You can see the same in the medical industry with false positives in regards to HIV.....just because a test turns out that way, does not necessarily imply they actually have HIV. Virus scanner software is not perfect. It needs to be preemptive in certain regards and thereby develops smart detection systems that locate new 'potential' threats before everyone's computer is compromised. If virus scanners did not have some kind of active defence against new and unknown viruses, then they would largely be useless. If you do not believe me, you can look up the term 'false positives' in regards to virus scanners. Nowadays everything works relatively fine with virus scanners (also thanks to better insight into trusted sources)....you would not believe how terrible some virus scanners were about 14 years ago....some classified just about everything as a virus when they were in actuality all false positives which was more disastrous than a virus scanner which detected not enough viruses.
Thanks for your answer!
