Nicholas Bohm to Satoshi: NOD32 flags Bitcoin as a virus, and the client crashes (January 25, 2009)

NBQuote from: Nicholas Bohm on January 25, 2009, 10:17:52 AM UTC

I have had a couple of problems running bitcoin: is this an appropriate list for reporting them (with about 70kb of attachments)?

What’s the problem you’re having?

If you send me your debug.log file directly (best not to send attachments to the list), I can take a look at what’s happening.

Thanks (I realise lists don’t usually like attachments).

Bitcoin is mostly running fine, and has made good progress (as far as I can tell) - see screenshot of progress.

My first problem was finding it reported as a virus by NOD32 (from Eset)

• see screenshot of report. I have reported this to Eset as an error, and they are investigating. If other AV vendors’ products do likewise, this might be a barrrier to takeup.

My second problem occurred yesterday, and consisted of a number of crashes by Bitcoin (four or five). The program simply closed, with the usual MS error report. I attach the file generated by the error report. The Event viewer describes the incident as “Faulting application bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, faulting module bitcoin.exe, version 0.0.0.0, fault address 0x000bd598.”

and its data are:

0000: 41 70 70 6c 69 63 61 74   Applicat
0008: 69 6f 6e 20 46 61 69 6c   ion Fail
0010: 75 72 65 20 20 62 69 74   ure  bit
0018: 63 6f 69 6e 2e 65 78 65   coin.exe
0020: 20 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30   0.0.0.0
0028: 20 69 6e 20 62 69 74 63   in bitc
0030: 6f 69 6e 2e 65 78 65 20   oin.exe
0038: 30 2e 30 2e 30 2e 30 20   0.0.0.0
0040: 61 74 20 6f 66 66 73 65   at offse
0048: 74 20 30 30 30 62 64 35   t 000bd5
0050: 39 38 0d 0a          98..

(This is one example.)

The problem has not recurred, and I am not aware of any significant system changes before or after the crashes. (I get regular AV updates, but NOD32 still detects bitcoin as a virus both before and after the crashes.)

My system details are as follows:

Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Version 2002

Service Pack 3

Hewlett-Packard
HP Compaq dc5750 Microtower

AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
Core Processor 4200+

2.19 GHz, 1.87 GB of RAM
Physical Address Extension

I attach the debug.log.

Please let me know if there is more information that would be helpful.

Regards,

Nicholas Bohm