The problem is in the IRC module used... it cuases false positive.
I use this and other wallets that have this type of false positive problem in some antivirus and I have not had any problems.
Again, the solution is not to set up exclusions. That's like asking for only pain medication when you have a broken leg. This needs to be fixed by the dev.
I agree that the solution isn't to set up exclusions, the better and right solution is to update the wallet so that ideally, the wallet isn't detected as a virus. At the moment, a non-techie person would likely be scared off installing it if their AV program alerted them to a virus and that reduces the likelihood of wider, mainstream coin adoption.
Here's the issue. I'm a software developer myself and when I downloaded the wallet and AV picked it up, I refused to execute it. Why? well two reasons.
- 1. Too lazy to look through the source to see why AV is picking it up since my time is more valuable than that. I'm sure it's a false positive but again, I'm not spending my time looking through source when I do that all day for work.
- 2. I trade other cryptos like everyone else and I have lots of sensitive info so I'm not going to take the risk of executing something that could spawn a keylogger or something and potentially lose all my investments.
Some new trader is going to feel the same way. This should be addressed.