Re: Electrum has a backdoor in it I dont care what any of you idiots say.

Quote from: ThomasDavis2018 on May 29, 2019, 02:34:14 PM

The author himself or one of the contributors is infecting the shit out of people.
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/5238c681a9b3d84fa8c47e46bf382a9543bde4c5eef1a42d768e6254be373e86/detection

you can't accuse people when you don't provide any proof.
this file you posted here is 5.23 MB while the Electrum installer for windows (.exe) is 35.28 MB. so obviously you have something else that only has the same name! the runner alone is also 6.01 MB!

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This copy of electrum has been on my desktop for 1 week now,
This is the copy I just downloaded.
https://www.virustotal.com/#/file/186004db7e502426b974d4deeeac4b97b1b779cf2060f376ddaceea0954bd3bd/detection

how is it that you easily trust a closed source website with a bunch of closed source antiviruses that you don't even know what they do and you can't trust something that is open source?