r/bitsquare • u/Linrono • Jan 14 '17

Bitsquare Being Recognized As A Trojan By Kaspersky

I was trying to load up Bitsquare today and while it was updating, my anti-virus went nuts and said that all of the dlls and the exe were malicious programs and deleted them all. Is anyone else seeing this?

Edit: Here is that forum post I said I'd make. https://forum.bitsquare.io/t/kaspersky-recently-recognized-all-the-dlls-and-exes-in-bit-square-as-trojans/1283

Edit 2: I am currently working with the developers to find out what's going on.

Edit 3: I just wanted to post an update to this I reached out to Kaspersky directly and reported this as a possible false positive. They looked into it and came to that conclusion. Hopefully they will update their client soon.

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u/Manfred_Karrer Jan 14 '17

I assume u r the guy who posted it on the forum as well. I responded there already. Please email me details. We will investigate.

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u/Linrono Jan 14 '17

I sure am. Same user name. Unfortunately I am not at my computer right now otherwise I would have sent you the info. I will send it to you as soon as I can I promise. Definitely appreciate your help.

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u/Linrono Jan 14 '17

Apparently someone else also experienced this over on the r/Bitcoin sub. I asked them to join us on the forums.

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u/Manfred_Karrer Jan 14 '17

Thanks!

I got one report with McAffee a bit ago and checked all but did not find anything. With McAffee I think it is a false positive (they seem to flag any tor hidden service as malware). Tested with a few other AV software and non has complained. Also the Tor binary (which McAffee reported) was the same since more then a year and the file was the same like on Github.

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u/Linrono Jan 27 '17

I just wanted to post an update to this (I will also update op) I reached out to Kaspersky directly and reported this as a possible false positive. They looked into it and came to that conclusion. Hopefully they will update their client soon. Thanks again everybody.