[fpc-pascal] Windows Defender considers fp.exe a malicious program

Martin Frb lazarus at mfriebe.de
Sat Feb 13 13:12:38 CET 2021


On 13/02/2021 03:55, Travis Siegel via fpc-pascal wrote:
> that if you have any timing routines in your code, it tends to get 
> flagged by virus scanners.  No clue why, but I've run afoul of that 
> issue more than once.

I read somewhere that some viruses have a build in wait, to evade 
sandbox detection. AV companies let unknown exe run in a sandbox, and 
wait if they behave bad.
Viruses evade that by being dormant for a while.


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