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

Martin Frb lazarus at mfriebe.de
Sat Feb 13 17:13:32 CET 2021


On 13/02/2021 16:52, Ched via fpc-pascal wrote:
> Hello,
>
> For one software I compile with fpc, Avast always complained. But only 
> when compiled for debugging.
> That exe was sent to the false positive departement, and it toke about 
> _one mounth_ to have a corrected version of the AV. Afterwhat, he 
> never complained even with reworked source code.

I've seen a few false positives on debug info. To be fair, the AV can't 
really tell its not code. It could be used like a resource, later to be 
loaded from the file and then somehow be executed. So if debuginfo 
happens to look like malicious code....


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