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digitalmars.D.learn - Avast virus warning?

reply Anonymouse <asdf asdf.net> writes:
I just sent a pre-compiled .exe of my project to a friend, and 
his Avast anti-virus promptly quarantined it and sent it off for 
analysis. I tried sending him a Hello World[1] with the same 
results.

Is this something common for d programs? Anything I can do to 
work around it from my end?

[1]: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fc51qz141r3ns6r/helloworld.exe
Jun 05 2017
next sibling parent reply rikki cattermole <rikki cattermole.co.nz> writes:
On 05/06/2017 5:31 PM, Anonymouse wrote:

 I just sent a pre-compiled .exe of my project to a friend, and his Avast 
 anti-virus promptly quarantined it and sent it off for analysis. I tried 
 sending him a Hello World[1] with the same results.
 
 Is this something common for d programs? Anything I can do to work 
 around it from my end?
 
 [1]: http://www.mediafire.com/file/fc51qz141r3ns6r/helloworld.exe


Yeah Avast is fairly hit happy for D programs, I've tried to get in 
touch with them but they don't make it too easy.

I have posited on IRC that maybe either somebody is doing something very 
bad with D (things like _Dmain as a symbol name are pretty obvious to 
look for!) or they have trained their neural network wrong.

It would be nice to get in touch with their engineers to find out what 
is really going on.
Jun 05 2017
parent Anonymouse <asdf asdf.net> writes:
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 16:40:25 UTC, rikki cattermole wrote:

 It would be nice to get in touch with their engineers to find 
 out what is really going on.


Tried an email and hit a paywall. :c


 "We’re sorry, but we can’t seem to find a record of your 
 license in our system."
Jun 05 2017
prev sibling parent Laeeth Isharc <Laeeth kaleidic.io> writes:
On Monday, 5 June 2017 at 16:31:04 UTC, Anonymouse wrote:

 I just sent a pre-compiled .exe of my project to a friend, and 
 his Avast anti-virus promptly quarantined it and sent it off 
 for analysis. I tried sending him a Hello World[1] with the 
 same results.

 Is this something common for d programs? Anything I can do to 
 work around it from my end?

 [1]: 
 http://www.mediafire.com/file/fc51qz141r3ns6r/helloworld.exe


https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=203573.0

It's not that people do bad things with D.  It's that dmd 
generates code that doesn't look like anything it has seen before.
Jun 06 2017