On 11/06/14 18:49, ellanios82 wrote: > Those files do not even contain any virus.
It doesn't even matter if it did contain a whole, real virus. A real virus embedded into a multi-gig blob of bitcoin data is about as dangerous as blinking This is a similar symptom seen with running virtuals - the AV running on the virtual means chunks of viruses it is looking for are floating around in it's RAM - which means they can get swapped out to disk on the physical - where the local AV could go bat-crazy over. Either AV vendors learnt to whitelist virtual file formats or they simply don't scan files greater than YYYYY bytes in size. Either of those options would work for this bitcoin "lark" too Don't forget, a virus is just a file until you execute it - only then is it really a "virus" -- Cheers Jason Haar Information Security Manager, Trimble Navigation Ltd. Phone: +1 408 481 8171 PGP Fingerprint: 7A2E 0407 C9A6 CAF6 2B9F 8422 C063 5EBB FE1D 66D1 _______________________________________________ Help us build a comprehensive ClamAV guide: https://github.com/vrtadmin/clamav-faq http://www.clamav.net/support/ml
