Found out yesterday that Avira marks one of many Delphi 10.1 built executables as false positive; submitted, but VirusTotal shows it as false positive:
Related:
- It took 2 days to fix, which for an anti-virus company is really slow
- After that, and updating the signatures on Windows, Avira still thinks it is a threat:[WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “Hey @Avira , I submitted a false positive 10 days ago; on virus-total it is now green, but on Windows – with latest Avira updates – Avira sill thinks it is a threat. What’s up?
- [WayBack] delphi – Antivirus False positive in my executable – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] Any other Delphi download tagged as “Harmful Download” from Google ? – General Help – Delphi-PRAXiS [en]
- [WayBack] security – Delphi applications considered ‘dangerous’ by Google Chrome – Stack Overflow
- [WayBack] Google! Don’t be evil! « How to Remove Malware
I think it was Avira too that interfered with my Delphi IDE compiling Delphi applications, especially resource compilation:
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “If your Delphi IDE hangs while compiling, but hardly using CPU, it can be @Avira acting up. No proper screenshot yet, but it happened multiple times over the past weeks.
ConHost,cmdor/andBRCC.exein the tree, none of them using much CPU or even being suspended 1/… @AskAvira…
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers on Twitter: “the trick is to use @Sysinternals #ProcessExplorer and kill the subtree. Now Delphi stops hanging, shows an error during the compilation stage it was in, and a retry will compile fine. Since it happens irregularly, and I cannot reproduce it yet, I need to leave it at this. 2/2”
- [WayBack] Jeroen Pluimers en Twitter: “Better screenshot, as it can also involve cgrc.exe. Another solution is to wait a couple of minutes.… “
–jeroen
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