Howdy all,
Apropos the BitCoin discussions, here is a Microsoft Windows user
raising the issue that Microsoft's “Security Essentials” is continually
flagging a user's BitCoin data as matching a 25-year-old defunct virus.
Since this is only the virus signature and not the virus itself,
there apparently is no danger to users in any way. However, MSE
recognizes the signature for the virus and continuously reports it
as a threat, and every time it deletes the file, the bitcoin client
will simply re-download the missing blockchain.
It appears to be a joke or prank, simply because this particular
virus does nothing more than periodically show "YOUR COMPUTER HAS
BEEN STONED" on one out of every eight computer boot-ups, and is
over 25 years old.
<URL:https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/protect/forum/mse-protect_updating/microsoft-security-essentials-reporting-false/0240ed8e-5a27-4843-a939-0279c8110e1c>
What are the chances Microsoft will address this correctly? What
incentives would they have to make BitCoin more convenient / less scary
for their users?
--
\ “Every man would like to be God, if it were possible; some few |
`\ find it difficult to admit the impossibility.” —Bertrand |
_o__) Russell, _Power: A New Social Analysis_, 1938 |
Ben Finney
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