[clamav-users] Bitcoin : Chainstate : Virii

[Al Varnell]

On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 11:24 PM, ellanios82 wrote:
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> On 06/11/2014 01:52 AM, Joel Esler (jesler) wrote:
>> What is your question here?
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> - it seems that about 6 to 8 virus signatures have been injected into bitcoin's chainstate, and that they are now probably permanently built into the chainstate :
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> - is this a threat, or,  can these alerts be safely ignored ?
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> ..............
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> thank you

Ellan,

According to the forum link you gave us you should "set your scanner to ignore sst files, which are not executable and cannot catch a virus.”


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Al Varnell
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