If you have verified the Electrum installer using any of the developer's public keys (see this topic) then the file is genuine, and the output of the anti-virus becomes a false positive.
Unless one of the devs have sabotaged the wallet themselves, which is an extremely rare occurrence for such an open source software and has never happened before to Electrum.
Topic: Urgent: RiskWare/Win32.Kryptik.a (Read 53 times)
May I ask, if you download the latest version of Electrum and run it via VirusTotal, is it the same result as mine please?
Since you're using the Windows binaries, here's their Virustotal results:- Stand-Alone version: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/b08e3626551a563fff4ce1e5d4ce52307722936bce18af3d9c140d7c67ffea7d
- Portable Version: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/659fb7caeed931860f7703d3b93d16727acfd10907bdec3ade7a1d348ee8e58f
- Installer Version: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/0ac63dbba76d46c290f8439f43b9dafcfb05a4c13ad5aac6c29d227b0fd1b645
Different binaries, same result.
May I ask, if you download the latest version of Electrum and run it via VirusTotal, is it the same result as mine please?
It is a common thing to see some Anti Viruses flag cryptocurrency related software with false positives. But since software such as Electrum are open source, if you have any concerns about the compiled binaries you can always download the source code and build it yourself.https://github.com/spesmilo/electrum/
I would say that it is a false detection, considering that only one AV engine detected that file as malicious - and honestly, I have never heard of that AV. I can only confirm that I personally (like some other members) had similar situations when some security programs detected Electrum files as malicious, but it was always a false detection.
The only thing you can do (if you haven't already) is to verify the file through the procedure that you can find on this link ->
[GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]
The only thing you can do (if you haven't already) is to verify the file through the procedure that you can find on this link ->
[GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]
Many thanks for your response.
I validated the version I installed with the keys - it came back valid.
May I ask, if you download the latest version of Electrum and run it via VirusTotal, is it the same result as mine please?
Thank you
I would say that it is a false detection, considering that only one AV engine detected that file as malicious - and honestly, I have never heard of that AV. I can only confirm that I personally (like some other members) had similar situations when some security programs detected Electrum files as malicious, but it was always a false detection.
The only thing you can do (if you haven't already) is to verify the file through the procedure that you can find on this link ->
[GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]
The only thing you can do (if you haven't already) is to verify the file through the procedure that you can find on this link ->
[GUIDE] How to Safely Download and Verify Electrum [Guide]
Hello,
I downloaded Electrum from the Electrum.org website (official) back in 2023, on 26th August.
Due to recent topics on reddit mentioning malware etc, I decided to scan the installer.
It came back with RiskWare/Win32.Kryptik.a from Antiy-AVL.
Please can someone confirm if this is a false positive or should I be concerned? I also have Norton 360 but that didn't pick up anything.
Link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/815981c431e511c59226017cb4d182f17c166a392b83658f7fb24ca6e0f94a23/detection
Thank you in advance.
I downloaded Electrum from the Electrum.org website (official) back in 2023, on 26th August.
Due to recent topics on reddit mentioning malware etc, I decided to scan the installer.
It came back with RiskWare/Win32.Kryptik.a from Antiy-AVL.
Please can someone confirm if this is a false positive or should I be concerned? I also have Norton 360 but that didn't pick up anything.
Link: https://www.virustotal.com/gui/file/815981c431e511c59226017cb4d182f17c166a392b83658f7fb24ca6e0f94a23/detection
Thank you in advance.
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