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I chuckled reading that my virus protection software might flag the miner binary as “male ware,” and rewrote that section of the documentation.
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## Virus Protection Alert
Some Virus protection software flag the miner binary as *Male Ware*.
In this case the binary is moved to the quarantine area of the protection software.
This is a wrong alert and not avoid by use.
Add the binary to to protection software white list to solve this issue.s
Some virus protection software flags the miner binary as *malware*. This is a false positive — the software does not contain any malware (and since it is open source, you can verify that yourself!)
If your antivirus software flags **xmr-stak**, it will likely move it to its quarantine area. You may have to whitelist **xmr-stak** in your antivirus.
## Change Currency to Mine