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Jenna:

--- Quote from: RomanV on September 03, 2014, 11:03:48 am ---Avast antivirus is complaining there is a virus/malware in this binary (for Windows).

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Search the forum.
My (very personal) opinin:
there is a malware on your system called avast.

eckard_klotz:
Hello Everybody.

I use Norton 360 from Symantec as virus-scanner and I can confirm that you get an arlarm with a nightly. And to be honest Roman and I are not the only people facing this problem. If you search through your forum, you will find some more comments around this.

My Norton calls the reason of detection "heuristic" and it is associated with the file "CbLauncher.exe" in the archive "CB_YYYYMMDD_revXXXX_win32.7z". Since this heuristic warning comes with every nightly since I use Norton 360 (end of last year), I replaced date by YYYYMMDD and revision-number by XXXX. I don't realy know, what "heuristic" realy means. But I think it means that the virus-scanner tries to estimate if a program may be a problem. This means not that the programm is realy corrupted but the scanner is not able to exclude the possibility.

Symantec offers to register such cases to avoid detecting trustable programs as a problem on its webside. Therfore I had to give them the associated download location. For some reasons (perhaps a problem between my ears whyle filling the online formular) they where not able to download. I tried to send them some more details but until now they didn't react. If you are intersted, I may send you the content of the emails. Perhaps we find to gether what I did wrong (except sending them a file they deteted as a potential virus).

How ever, in my case the problem is the file "CbLauncher.exe". When I download a nightly at my company, I have no problem since we use an other virus-scanner. Thus I unpack the download there and put it on a stick. In this unpacked state I can transfer it to my computer at home, where "CbLauncher.exe" will be still deleted by my Norton-360. But as I see everyday, for the normal use "CbLauncher.exe" is not neccessary. Thus I would propose to offer "CbLauncher.exe" in an own package as long as this virus-scanner problem is not solved.

Best regards,
Eckard.

SteelRat:
Stupid heuristic analyzer. All anti-viruses are useless shit. Use firewalls and java-script blockers in browsers and you'll never catch a virus.

eckard_klotz:
Hello SteelRat.

 ??? Stupid ???

I don't know. If you have to maintain a tool like a virus-scanner it is hard to define exactly that an unknown programm that looks in some parts similar to a virus is not a virus. I think there is no other posibility to register the software (or to let it register) to become the status as known what means trusted software. Since Code::Blocks is an open source project this should be no normaly no problem.

Best regards,
                  Eckard.

SteelRat:
Yep, but it's nightly build, not official release. It does not need to be registered anywhere.

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