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Quote from: nexus2k14 on December 12, 2017, 09:26:50 PM

If you downloaded Electrum from "official website" there is nothing to worry about. Sometimes any antivirus picks false positive files and automatically quarantine them. You have two choices, look for another wallet but I am using Electrum and is trustworthy and of best desktop wallets out there, the second option is disable antivirus, download wallet and install. Then go location where wallet is installed and scan files from right context menu. Sometimes antivirus software will delete zip/far filed automatically so this may be the case too. If you install from the official website there is nothing to worry about.

It is like my antivirus. It delete something that i just download from official website.
But i think we have to put the wallet in exception of the antivirus and no need to worry about the walletbit is safe.

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Windows deffender is too sensitive, you can check more accurately on the VIRUSTOTAL site, if the red number shows 0 then the wallet is safe, this is very common on the desktop wallet

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Quote from: bcgloat on December 12, 2017, 09:00:38 PM

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

I just heard about the virus when you upload your wallet,
sayarasa virus is not happening from the download you do
but it is downloaded from the website where you download the electrum wallet.
try to download it from the official electrum website

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Almost all of the cryptowallets are detected as virus depending on what antivirus u used. I simply consider it a false positive especially if it comes from their websites. You have no choice than to exclude that particular wallet in your AV

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Quote from: bcgloat on December 12, 2017, 09:00:38 PM

Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

Have you downloaded it from their official website? Because then it will be fine. And your antivirus is just doing it because it is not recognizing it or don't have its certificate in its database, there is nothing to worry about, you can just disable your antivirus for a few minutes, download and install and then reactivate your antivirus again.
Electrum is one of the most used desktop wallets, I am also using it and its one of the top trusted ones too.
But make sure you are downloading it from their official website.

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If you downloaded Electrum from "official website" there is nothing to worry about. Sometimes any antivirus picks false positive files and automatically quarantine them. You have two choices, look for another wallet but I am using Electrum and is trustworthy and of best desktop wallets out there, the second option is disable antivirus, download wallet and install. Then go location where wallet is installed and scan files from right context menu. Sometimes antivirus software will delete zip/far filed automatically so this may be the case too. If you install from the official website there is nothing to worry about.

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Hello everybody! I was just getting ready to start my experience with bitcoin and as many recommended, I downloaded Electrum for windows 10 from the official site but as the download finished, windows defender has found a virus, a trojan and deleted it automatically. This seems a bit strange because I've seen many people talking about this wallet positively, could you tell me if you get the same result? I plan to buy soon from Coinbase, what wallet for desktop should I get instead of Electrum? Please let me know, thank you very much!

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