I dont know what ya'll be talking about..
Antivirus False Positives are a known thing with many wallets.
Many AV programs will even interfere with wallets. I run a separate VM with all my wallets in one place - and I do not run an antivirus there for that reason. I've seen wallets not sync because of that. Windows Defender seems to be a good option as it still offers protection but does not interfere with wallets.
About wallet sync issues prior to V2.1- yea in the beginning there were some sync issues, after update to v2.1 everything is running like clockwork, no sync issues, constant POS (every 15-30 min on average).
I suppose I can only answer this for myself. Yes, I too am quite used to seeing false positives as I have been playing in this arena for a while now myself. What my personal experience has gotten me to "get used to" is seeing 1 or 2 somewhat obvious false positives, such as those that reference some sort of bitcoin miner. In the beginning this was all I saw personally and they always seemed to reference something regarding a miner.
What I have not become accustomed to or used to, is seeing so many false positives in a single wallet and all referencing Trojans and nothing referencing anything to do with miners. I also will admit this is not my area of expertise as I know it is also not for your typical crypto user.......I have no idea how to determine without question what is a false positive or a real problem! Throw on top of that the fact that there are probably hundreds of viruses trying to be pushed around here in crypto land everyday.....seems enough to be much more than cautious.
Seeing the number of supposed false positives with this wallet and the references being given for those supposed false positives is a pretty scary thing to see for someone who cannot determine for sure that they are in fact ALL false positives!! I do understand and actually believe these are almost certainly false positives, but am I really gonna risk that for a wallet that holds $10 worth of coins?
I had another similar experience with another wallet a few weeks back I think it was, it was with MEU. He released an updated wallet with IRC built in and when checked with VirusTotal, it came up very similar to this......in fact I think it was coming up with like a dozen infections. I brought up the same point there as well.......no way a newbie or non tech savvy person who scans this wallet is going to install it as is.
He came out with a new wallet a week later with no miner (I think it was) in it and scanned COMPLETELY clean. Ultimately this WILL create a loss of losers so personally I think it best to give the option to those that don't want to risk it, a wallet that will scan clean.....in this case it sounds like possibly the IRC is causing this to happen. I could care less about having IRC built into a wallet and I am pretty sure most people would feel the same and would much more prefer to have a wallet they KNOW is clean and free of any possibly bugs that can cause them loss or problems.
BTW, I use MSE on all my machines and have never had any issues with it interfering with any of my wallets.
