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Board Bitcoin Discussion
Re: Virus detected in the blockchain
by
An amorous cow-herder
on 04/10/2014, 20:27:28 UTC
some crap virus scanners dont detect actual viruses, they just have lists of filenames, and it happens to be that a certain old virus from the 1990's had a filename called blk00129.dat.

i kinda remember someone posting about this last year
Its not the filename. There actually is part of an old MS-DOS virus in the blockchain.
Fortunately its harmless.