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Topic: BitcoinPlus - Trojan? (Read 2762 times)

legendary
Activity: 1358
Merit: 1002
November 27, 2012, 05:46:18 AM
#5
No, it is not malware.
Some scanners just pick it up by accident because of bitcoin botnets.

Anyone who uses it on a website will have the website blocked on most browsers and search engines because it is detected as malware.
full member
Activity: 174
Merit: 100
November 27, 2012, 05:35:08 AM
#4
No, it is not malware.
Some scanners just pick it up by accident because of bitcoin botnets.
member
Activity: 73
Merit: 10
November 27, 2012, 03:45:39 AM
#3
Don't trust virus scanners.
In case of doubt run it in a VM. (A real one... not java's)
legendary
Activity: 1176
Merit: 1011
November 27, 2012, 03:06:54 AM
#2
In case of doubt, I always use something like http://virusscan.jotti.org/ or https://www.virustotal.com/ which allows me to check the file with 40+ virus scanners.
legendary
Activity: 1134
Merit: 1118
November 27, 2012, 02:23:40 AM
#1
I know Avast! may have a false positive as it is a java miner, but when I click BitcoinPlus it detects

HTML:RedirME-inf [Trj]

Safe or not?
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