Topic: Antivirus (Read 648 times)
Yea I don't think it'd be worth it.
I understand your point.
What I had in mind was those tools sometimes delivered by Microsoft or antivirus companies that were very light apps specifically created to search just for specific virus and deactivate them.
They were like specialized mini-antivirus apps, fast to donwload, which performs much faster scans, not having necessarily to be in conflict with existent antivirus.
I think of it because I've heard of specific virus that search for wallets, so may be a direct counter-attack to this problem will be needed someday.
What I had in mind was those tools sometimes delivered by Microsoft or antivirus companies that were very light apps specifically created to search just for specific virus and deactivate them.
They were like specialized mini-antivirus apps, fast to donwload, which performs much faster scans, not having necessarily to be in conflict with existent antivirus.
I think of it because I've heard of specific virus that search for wallets, so may be a direct counter-attack to this problem will be needed someday.
Maybe iam totally wrong by saying that there isn't any bitcoin specified virus, all a black hat can do in order to steal your wallet is by sending you fake email with a phishing link appears to redirect you on blockchain looking page and ask you to login or a keylogger to trace you key strokes and screenshots, trojan bot do the same and a wallet stealer which also requires you to login. So a light app anti virus won't serve the cause a good pro anti virus plus a bit of awareness is all you need to protect your coins not forgetting the gox mess in which all you can do is just scream and abuse cuz no software can protect you from scamming for sure so use your anti virus commonly known as brain
Edit: Its good if you are implementing one go on and i am in no sense criticizing you
I understand your point.
What I had in mind was those tools sometimes delivered by Microsoft or antivirus companies that were very light apps specifically created to search just for specific virus and deactivate them.
They were like specialized mini-antivirus apps, fast to donwload, which performs much faster scans, not having necessarily to be in conflict with existent antivirus.
I think of it because I've heard of specific virus that search for wallets, so may be a direct counter-attack to this problem will be needed someday.
What I had in mind was those tools sometimes delivered by Microsoft or antivirus companies that were very light apps specifically created to search just for specific virus and deactivate them.
They were like specialized mini-antivirus apps, fast to donwload, which performs much faster scans, not having necessarily to be in conflict with existent antivirus.
I think of it because I've heard of specific virus that search for wallets, so may be a direct counter-attack to this problem will be needed someday.
Not worth it actually because i don't think there are any bitcoin specified malwares or virus so what exactly the anti virus you are talking about will do can be done by any good paid anti virus as so far almost every known anti virus like Norton kaspersky avast bitdefender is able to catch and delete trojans,malwares,viruses,keyloggers,bots are far as they are not manually FUD thorugh hexing.Also they warn you and protect you while surfing the web for phishing and malicious websites and the major problem will be if we have 2 anti virus in a computer they will crash with others polices resulting into slow down of the computer or restarting problem etc.So i would say no need to implementing a bitcoin anti virus
Do you think it would make sense to develop an antivirus specialized in bitcoin spyware?
So, let's say, before making a transaction from a wallet, we could run it to have a certain degree of confidence there won't be a keylogger catching the password to encrypt the wallet.
So, let's say, before making a transaction from a wallet, we could run it to have a certain degree of confidence there won't be a keylogger catching the password to encrypt the wallet.
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