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Silvercube146

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Some antivirus's are more prone to false positives. These 2 sites can help compare which ones are less prone av-test.org http://www.av-test.org/en/home/ & av-comparatives.orghttp://www.av-comparatives.org/.

On av-test go to home user and select usability. When you select an antivirus and it will list the amount of false positives. A higher usability score most of the time equals less false positives.

For av-comparatives this page http://chart.av-comparatives.org/chart1.php lists false positives as a square.

The goal is to find an antivirus that is extremely good in real world tests and close to zero false positives

bassguitarman

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Some asshole (or genious) put a virus signature in the blockchain. It can't execute, so you are safe

shorena

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No I dont escrow anymore.

Quote from: drummerjdb666 on June 02, 2014, 05:05:46 PM

Not false positives but at the same time not executable Wink

I posted about this here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6206746

They are false positives. The Antivirus just finds signatures of viruses, not the viruses themself.

drummerjdb666

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Not false positives but at the same time not executable Wink

I posted about this here
https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.6206746

byt411

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Yes, they are false positives, some troll added the headers of viruses to the blockchain like a month ago.

cjp

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Can someone please try to replicate this result listed below? My system is Debian 7.5 + Bitcoin 0.8.6 + clamscan from the Debian distribution.

Are these false positives?

Code:

user@host:~/.bitcoin/chainstate$ clamscan *
141437.sst: OK
141438.sst: OK
[snip]
142245.sst: OK
142246.sst: OK
142247.sst: Gergana.9 FOUND
142248.sst: OK
142249.sst: OK
[snip]
142408.sst: OK
142409.sst: OK
142410.sst: Boot.Gen.10past3 FOUND
142411.sst: OK
142412.sst: OK
[snip]
142469.sst: OK
142470.sst: OK
142471.sst: Stoned.1 FOUND
142472.sst: OK
142473.sst: OK
[snip]
142530.sst: OK
142531.sst: OK
142532.sst: Vienna-645.A FOUND
142533.sst: OK
142534.sst: OK
[snip]
142551.sst: OK
142552.sst: OK
142553.sst: Gen.805 FOUND
142554.sst: OK
142555.sst: OK
[snip]
142566.sst: OK
142567.sst: OK
142568.sst: Italian.1 FOUND
142569.sst: OK
142570.sst: Chren-4016 FOUND
142571.sst: OK
142575.sst: OK
[snip]
142606.sst: OK
142607.sst: OK
142608.sst: Peace.1 FOUND
142609.sst: OK
142610.sst: OK
[snip]
143723.sst: OK
143724.sst: OK
CURRENT: OK
LOCK: Empty file
LOG: OK
LOG.old: OK
MANIFEST-143669: OK

----------- SCAN SUMMARY -----------
Known viruses: 3393590
Engine version: 0.98.1
Scanned directories: 0
Scanned files: 262
Infected files: 8
Data scanned: 470.01 MB
Data read: 511.32 MB (ratio 0.92:1)
Time: 56.098 sec (0 m 56 s)

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